Antonio Krapovickas

Argentine botanist (1921-2015).

Antonio Krapovickas (8 October 1921 – 17 August 2015) was an Argentine agronomist. Krapovickas received a degree in 1948 in agronomic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and began teaching in 1949 as Professor of Genetics and Systems Botany at the University of Córdoba. He later became Professor of Plant Anatomy at the National University of Tucumán. In 1964, he moved to Corrientes to accept a position at the National University of the Northeast (UNNE), becoming chair of its Department of Botany and Ecology in 1977. He also founded the university's botanical gardens, Spanish: Insti