BIOLOGIST

Emil Racoviță

1868 - 1947

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Emil Gheorghe Racoviță (Romanian: [eˈmil ˈrakovit͡sə]; 15 November 1868 – 19 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Racoviță has received more than 128,193 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Emil Racoviță is the 526th most popular biologist (down from 518th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Romania (down from 261st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Emil Racoviță ranks 526 out of 1,097. Before her are Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Arthur Cronquist, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, and Franz von Paula Schrank. After her are Patrick Manson, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Frederic Clements, and Basilius Besler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Emil Racoviță ranks 133. Before her are Filipp Makharadze, Marie Dressler, Juventino Rosas, Georges Lacombe, Constance Markievicz, and Mikhail Pokrovsky. After her are Nikolaos Trikoupis, Frederick W. Lanchester, Zhang Binglin, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, and Arthur Gore. Among people deceased in 1947, Emil Racoviță ranks 128. Before her are Marc Mitscher, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Giuseppe Volpi, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, and Felix Timmermans. After her are Siegfried Kasche, Frances Cleveland, Elisabeth von Gutmann, Leevi Madetoja, Martin Mutschmann, and Somnath Sharma.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Emil Racoviță ranks 265 out of 844. Before her are Kadriye Nurmambet (1933), Miklós Bánffy (1873), Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), Dan Petrescu (1967), Cristian Chivu (1980), and Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (1832). After her are Nichita Stănescu (1933), Eva Mozes Kor (1934), Natalya Varley (1947), Margit Kaffka (1880), Nicolae Rainea (1933), and Gheorghe Gruia (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

Among biologists born in Romania, Emil Racoviță ranks 5. Before her are Ana Aslan (1897), Johann Hedwig (1730), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), and Aaron Aaronsohn (1876). After her are Grigore Antipa (1867).

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