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PROTF. DR. P. VAN OYE, the leading Belgian hydro-biologist, was aixty on August 24, an event which has been duly celebrated by his numerous friends and followers; other festivities, of a more official character, ape to follow shortly. Prof, van Oye can look back on more than thirty years of splendid biological work, including for a great part studies on plankton of many countries, in most cases the result of personal exhaustive and exhausting field-work; in this last respect, he most certainly can compete with the keenest of his younger followers. He wrote numerous and important papers on Desmids (on which he is one of the world's leading authorities), Rotators, Rhizopods, etc.; he is the discoverer of the periodical evolution of the plankton in tropical regions, and, together with Apsteins, of the rule on the variation of plankton-facies. Another very important discovery of his is the constancy of the pH. in a given aquatic bio tope. Prof, van Oye spent several years in Indonesia and the Belgian Congo, and shortly before the War visited Iceland. The Biogeographical Institute, University of Ghent, has done and is doing useful work under his leadership. The patriotic attitude of Prof, van Oye under the occupation caused the Germans to relieve him of his post and even to imprison him for some weeks.
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Prof. P. van Oye. Nature 158, 372 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158372b0
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