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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 45,634 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Grigore Antipa is the 779th most popular biologist (down from 714th in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from Romania (down from 335th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Grigore Antipa ranks 779 out of 841Before him are Lilian Gibbs, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Thomas Thomson, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Bunzō Hayata, and Nikolai Turczaninow. After him are Richard Spruce, Yang Zhongjian, Sereno Watson, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, and Judah Folkman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Grigore Antipa ranks 121Before him are Frederick Keeping, Harold Mahony, Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason, James Quibell, Simon Guggenheim, and Frank Brangwyn. After him are Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Charles Dana Gibson, Alec B. Francis, John Exley, René Boylesve, and Victor Thibault. Among people deceased in 1944, Grigore Antipa ranks 241Before him are Alejandro Villanueva, Walter Breisky, Rudolf Harbig, Alime Abdenanova, Josef Lhévinne, and Michael Pedersen Friis. After him are Lev Shcherba, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Charles Dana Gibson, Octav Băncilă, Endre Steiner, and Frank Knox.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Grigore Antipa ranks 374 out of 665Before him are Ion Agârbiceanu (1882), Liviu Ciulei (1923), Ion Lăpușneanu (1908), Petre S. Aurelian (1833), Iosif Czako (1906), and Adalbert Steiner (1907). After him are Florin Gheorghiu (1944), Nicolae Crețulescu (1812), Otmar Szafnauer (1964), Gavril Dejeu (1932), Octav Băncilă (1872), and Nicolae Lupescu (1940).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

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