Grigore Antipa
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Grigore Antipa (27 November 1867, Botoşani – 9 March 1944 Bucharest) was a Romanian 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.
Additionally, Antipa was a specialist in zoology, ichthyology, ecology and oceanography, and was a university professor.
He was elected a member of the Romanian Academy in 1910 and was also a member of several foreign academies. He founded a school of hydrobiology and ichthyology in Romania.
He was the first Romanian to reach the North Pole.
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