BIOLOGIST

Grigore Antipa

1867 - 1944

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Grigore Antipa (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡriˈɡore anˈtipa]; 27 November 1867 in Botoșani – 9 March 1944 in Bucharest) was a Romanian naturalist, zoologist, ichthyologist, ecologist, oceanologist, Darwinist biologist who studied the fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name. He is also considered to be the first person to modernize the diorama by emphasizing the three-dimensional aspect and first to use dioramas in a museum setting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigore Antipa has received more than 49,154 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Grigore Antipa is the 866th most popular biologist (down from 778th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from Romania (down from 374th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Grigore Antipa ranks 866 out of 1,097. Before him are Liberty Hyde Bailey, Stanley Norman Cohen, Ken Alibek, Thomas Bell, George Montagu, and Henry Nicholas Ridley. After him are Thomas Campbell Eyton, Pierre Chambon, Hermann Harms, Birbal Sahni, Charles Horton Peck, and G. Evelyn Hutchinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Grigore Antipa ranks 130. Before him are Charles Dana Gibson, Miguel Abadía Méndez, Petr Bezruč, Antonio Conte, Vikenty Veresaev, and Simon Guggenheim. After him are Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason, John Exley, Domenico Mezzadri, George William Russell, Ernest Dowson, and James Quibell. Among people deceased in 1944, Grigore Antipa ranks 278. Before him are Jean Prévost, Kang Kyeong-ae, George Clausen, Georg Dascher, Merna Kennedy, and Mehmet Emin Yurdakul. After him are Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Juliette Atkinson, Lev Shcherba, Eoin O'Duffy, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, and Endre Steiner.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Grigore Antipa ranks 430 out of 844. Before him are Silviu Lung (1956), Petre S. Aurelian (1833), Michael Klein (1959), Ádám Bodor (1936), Sándor Schwartz (1909), and Lőrinc Schlauch (1824). After him are Alexandra Stan (1989), Béla Károlyi (1942), Alexandru Neagu (1948), Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu (1944), Atanase Sciotnic (1942), and Valeria Bufanu (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

Among biologists born in Romania, Grigore Antipa ranks 6. Before him are Ana Aslan (1897), Johann Hedwig (1730), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), and Emil Racoviță (1868).

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