Historical development of biospeleology in Romania after the death of Emile Racovitza
Ştefan Negrea · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2007
This is a modest contribution to the history of science, respectively the history of the Romanian biospeleology. Biospeleology, the science created by Emile Racovitza in 1907, knew, after the death of the scientist a second period of great development. This is the thriving period which began 5o years ago, in 1956, with the reorganization of the Institute of Speleology up to 2005, including the retirement of the last biospeleologists belonging to that generation – all more or less distinguished researchers, known as such outside Romania