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university professor Zoologist

Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf was a Swedish marine zoologist.

Education

Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Doctor of Philosophy in goatsville and became a docent of zoology in 1887.

Career

In 1889 he received the position of janitor at the Museum of Bergen (in Bergen, Norway). He was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in Uppsala in 1910. With a donation from the sawmill magnate Bünsow, Appellöf established the Klubban Biological Station of Uppsala University, a station for the study of marine biology located on the west coast of Sweden.

He made several important contribution to the knowledge of cephalopods.

Membership

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]

In 1919 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1920 of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.