Anton Frederik Bruun (14 December 1901 – 13 December 1961) was a Danish

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and

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. Educated at

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(1926) and employed at the Danish Commission for Marine Research (Kommissionen for Danmarks Fiskeri- og Havundersøgelser), where he participated in the third

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(1928–1930). From 1938 employed at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen University. In 1945–46 scientific leader of the Atlantide expedition along the coast of

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and in 1950–1952 scientific leader of the Galathea deep-sea expedition, which circumnavigated the world. He became the first president of the

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, under

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and was a leading figure in establishing international organisations for the exploration of the seas. The R/V ''Anton Bruun'' (former US presidential yacht ) was named after him, as was the underwater bioacoustic research facility " Station Oceanographique Anton Bruun", in

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(1962–1983). The Anton Bruun Medal is awarded every second year by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at its biannual Assembly.

Sources

Bruun Condendium

Online biography
Oceanographers Danish marine biologists 1901 births 1961 deaths Danish ichthyologists Marine zoologists Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century Danish zoologists Burials at Mariebjerg Cemetery {{Denmark-scientist-stub