Realizări ale academicianului Emil Pop
Achievements of Academician Emil Pop

Summary/Abstract: The remarkable scientific concerns of the renowned Academician Emil Pop, a leading exponent of the „Babeș Bolyai” University of Cluj, included par excellence the fields of palinology, Pliocene flora of Eastern Carpathians, the peat bogs in Romania, the knowledge of nature reserves and the large scale nature protection cam paign whose assiduous promoter he remained throughout his whole professional career. He presented the development of the laboratory of plant anatomy and physiology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the university. He also emphasized the role of Emil Racoviță in the progress of botany, specifying the plant and animal species that were dedicated to him. Another relevant example, chosen from his teaching activity, aimed at getting to know and explain the phenomena of aging and death in the plant and animal world. Another significant episode is the correspond ence relationship with the most important marine algologist in Romania, Maria S. Celan. Particularly erudite and emotional is the speech on the occasion of the meeting of the 1915 class of „Andrei Șaguna” High School in Brașov. He died unexpectedly in 1974.

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