93,728 profiles ranked live

Carl Chun

✓ Source-basedstable

German zoologist (1852-1914)

AcademicsLived 1852 to 1914 · aged 61
Compare
Fame49.2
MomentumNot measured
Languages23
Peak1900s
In century#7,516

Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and Leipzig (1898). He was a pioneer of German oceanographic research, organizing the first deep-sea expedition aboard the SS Valdivia in 1898-99.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 4

Awards 2

1911Cothenius Medal
honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo

Connected to Carl 6

About this person

Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Königsberg (1883), Breslau (1891) and Leipzig (1898). He was a pioneer of German oceanographic research, organizing the first deep-sea expedition aboard the SS Valdivia in 1898-99. He spent much of his life studying the collections made during the expedition, and was responsible for discovering many marine organisms, including the vampire squid.

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1852 to 1914 · aged 61
Written about in
23 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.