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Journal of Plankton Research 2004 26(8):835-838; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbh116
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Journal of Plankton Research Vol. 26 No. 8 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

OBITUARY

Ramón Margalef (1919–2004)

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Ramón Margalef was born in Barcelona, on 16 May 1919. He showed an early interest in the observation of freshwater organisms but did not initially follow formal scientific studies. In 1938, he was drafted into the Spanish civil war. After finishing a second round of military service in 1943, he worked for a while as a clerk in an insurance company but continued his scientific interests at the Botanical Institute in Barcelona. Shortly thereafter, he was offered a grant by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and entered the Instituto de Biología Aplicada, which later became the Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras. ‘Several years of miserable living through the Spanish "uncivil" war and through the time following World War II convinced me that science could offer some consolation’ he recalled when he received the ASLO Lifetime Achievement Award (ASLO Bulletin, 2000, 9: 13). In 1949, he obtained a degree in natural . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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