Carl Chun
Carl Chun or
Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine
biologist who worked as a professor at the
University of Königsberg (1883),
Breslau (1891) and at
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.
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