8 – 31 OCTOBER 2024
Authors: SASA Corresponding Member Marjan Niketić, Gordana Tomović, PhD, and Milorad Vujičić, PhD
Organized by: the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade, the Museum of Natural History and the SASA Gallery of Sciences and Technology
This year’s October marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Academician Nedeljko Košanin, one of the most esteemed Serbian intellectuals of the early 20th century. Often regarded as the successor to Josif Pančić, Košanin was an internationally recognized scholar in the field of natural sciences.
Although his first scientific paper focused on zoology, Košanin dedicated the rest of his scientific opus to general botany. He was the founder of plant physiology and geo-botany, and he was one of the pioneers in the fields of algology and bryology in Serbia. He also achieved significant results in the fields of plant systematics, floristics and dendrology. In addition to the newly described species of flowers, he also left behind a vast collection of plant material carefully preserved in the form of dried samples and housed in herbarium collections in Belgrade and major European cities.
