Antonio Krapovickas (8 October 1921 – 17 August 2015) was an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

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. Krapovickas received a degree in 1948 in agronomic engineering from the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one o ...

and began teaching in 1949 as Professor of

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and Systems Botany at the University of Córdoba. He later became Professor of Plant

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at the

National University of Tucumán The National University of Tucumán ( es, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, UNT) is an Argentine national university located in Tucumán Province and the largest in Argentina's northwest region. Founded on 25 May 1914 in San Miguel de Tucumán ...

. In 1964, he moved to

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to accept a position at the

National University of the Northeast The National University of the Northeast (Spanish: ''Universidad Nacional del Nordeste'', UNNE) is an Argentine national university. It is located in the cities of Corrientes and Resistencia, capital cities of the Provinces of Corrientes and Ch ...

(UNNE), becoming Chair of its Department of Botany and Ecology in 1977. He also founded the university's botanical gardens, es,

Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste The Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, or Ibone, is a large botanical institute at the National University of the Northeast and major regional herbarium which contains over 400,000 plant specimens from northeastern Argentina and neighboring count ...

or ''Ibone'', with his wife, Dr. Carmen L. Cristóbal. Krapovickas' research centered on

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

of the family

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and biology of species in the genus ''

Arachis ''Arachis'' is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family (Fabaceae), native to South America, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic ''Pterocarpus'' clade of the Dalbergieae. At least one ...

'' (

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). His publications in these fields, including over 110 papers, 8 book chapters, and a

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on ''Arachis'' - the genus of the groundnut - that he coauthored with Walton C. Gregory, are very influential and widely cited.

Awards and distinctions

* John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1953) * CONICET Research Scientist (1961–1994) * Director of Ibone (1977–1991) * President of the ''Sociedad Argentina de Genética'' (1983–1985) *

Konex Award Konex Foundation Awards, or simply Konex Awards, are cultural awards from the Konex Foundation honouring Argentine cultural personalities. History and purpose Konex Awards are granted by the Konex Foundation, created in 1980 in Argentina. The pur ...

in Science and Technology recipient (1983) * ''Centro Argentino de Ingenieros Agrónomos'' (CADIA) Prize recipient (1984) * Corresponding member of the

Botanical Society of America The Botanical Society of America (BSA) represents professional and amateur botanists, researchers, educators and students in over 80 countries of the world. It functions as a United States nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership society. History The soci ...

(1989) * ''

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'' Award in Agronomy recipient (1990) *

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at UNNE (1990)

Publications

:''This list is incomplete.'' *

References

* * 1921 births 2015 deaths Argentine people of Lithuanian descent 20th-century Argentine botanists {{Argentina-botanist-stub