Albert Grunow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian phycologist
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Albert Grunow
- Albert Grunow (3 November 1826, Berlin – 17 March 1914, Berndorf, Lower Austria) was a German-Austrian chemist and phycologist.
- He specialized in the study of diatoms. From 1851 he worked as a chemist in a metal works factory in Berndorf.
- In 1857-59 he participated in the Austrian "Novara Expedition", and was tasked with analysis of its algal collections.
- Also, he served as a collector, preparator and determiner of specimens towards the development of Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst's diatom exsiccatae.In 1901 he donated his collection of extant and fossil diatoms to the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
- He was a corresponding member of the Geologischen Reichsanstalt.
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