B92: Josif Pančić
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Josif Pančić was a Serbian botanist, physician, professor and academic. Born in the First French Empire, in present-day Croatia, he earned his medical degree in Hungary before moving to Serbia. He extensively documented the flora of Serbia, and is credited with having classified many species of plants which were unknown to the botanical community at that time. Pančić is credited with discovering t…
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science · Serbian botanist and academic (1814–1888) · botanist · biologist · university teacher · physician · naturalist · secondary school teacher · botanical collector · scientific collector · mineralogist · zoologist · also Josif Pančić, Pančić
Born 5 April 1814 · Died 25 February 1888 · Q543250
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B92: Josif Pančić
BBC: Kako je naučnik Josif Pančić otkrio omoriku, „ledenu lepoticu"
Published “Silicified cell walls as a defensive trait in diatoms” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences — cited 87 times.
Published “Phytoplankton defence mechanisms: traits and trade‐offs” in Biological Reviews — cited 201 times.
Published “Induction of domoic acid production in diatoms—Types of grazers and diatoms are important” in Harmful Algae — cited 98 times.
Published “Dangerous Relations in the Arctic Marine Food Web: Interactions between Toxin Producing Pseudo-nitzschia Diatoms and Calanus Copepodites” in Marine Drugs — cited 90 times.
Google celebrated his birthday with a Google Doodle
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By the Academy of Science, the University of Belgrade and the Hiking club, with the inscription:
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The highest point in the Kopaonik mountain range was changed from Milan Peak to Pančić's Peak
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Died 1888-02-25.
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“Flora knez̆evine Srbije ili vaskularne biljke, koje y Srbije divlie rastu”
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While a supplement was added ten years later
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“Flora u okolini Beogradskoj po analitičnom metodu”
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As decreed by the Ministry of Education of the Principality of Serbia
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Moved from Kragujevac to Belgrade when he was first appointed adjunct professor at Belgrade Lyceum's Department of Natural History and Agronomy by decree of Prince Alexander Karadjordjević, before becoming a full-time
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Asked to be released from his Austrian citizenship and applied for Serbian citizenship, the same year he met his future wife Lyudmila Mileva
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Born 1814-04-05.
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