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. He was an influential professor, scholar and researcher, and served as President of the Romanian Academy from 1926 to 1929. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Racoviță is the 618th most popular biologist (down from 526th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 265th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Emil Racoviță ranks 618 out of 1,097Before her are Franz Steindachner, Émile Oustalet, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Imre Frivaldszky, Charles Walter De Vis, and Patrick Manson. After her are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Étienne Pierre Ventenat, Euclides da Cunha, Alfred Grandidier, Ray Lankester, and Aldo Leopold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Emil Racoviță ranks 135Before her are Cuno Amiet, Georges Lacombe, Gilbert Walker, Ozaki Kōyō, Filipp Makharadze, and Mikhail Pokrovsky. After her are Émile Fisseux, Sumner Paine, Frank Watson Dyson, Juventino Rosas, Meri Mangakāhia, and Zhang Binglin. Among people deceased in 1947, Emil Racoviță ranks 139Before her are Giuseppe Volpi, K. L. Saigal, Siegfried Kasche, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Rudolf Noack, and Elias Katz. After her are Felix Timmermans, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, Richard Heidrich, Fyodor Dan, Johannes Winkler, and Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Emil Racoviță ranks 272 out of 844Before her are Răzvan Lucescu (1969), György Klapka (1820), Alexandru Macedonski (1854), Dimitrie Ghica (1816), Sándor Veress (1907), and Júlia Várady (1941). After her are Elvira Popescu (1894), István Avar (1905), Franz Rohr von Denta (1854), Victor Ponta (1972), Natalya Varley (1947), and Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (1832).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

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