Farewell to biologist JÁNOS NOSEK (1949–2020)

Abstract

We lost a great colleague and friend. JÁNOS NOSEK was a widely known hydrobiologist and popular person. He started his scientific career at the Hungarian Danube Research Station of the HAS (now: CER Institute of Aquatic Ecology) and worked there for 36 years. There he took part in investigations on periphyton and studied macroinvertebrate communities with NÁNDOR OERTEL for decades. Besides, he took part in some terrestrial ecological projects. He enjoyed the fieldwork, sampling, and photographing and was a master of quantitative data processing and data evaluation. Moreover, he was a patient and encouraging teacher who taught the MSc course “Biogeography” (Szent István University, Gödöllő) for two decades to the great satisfaction of the students. As the deputy director of the Ecological Research Institute from 1993–2004, he was a well-known scientist, leader or participant in several research projects. The total number of his scientific publications is 115. In addition, thanks to his excellent skills in English and German, he has translated several text-books into Hungarian. He had an engaging personality and was a witty person in his communities. Nothing can bring JÁNOS back, but by this obituary, we would like to keep his memory alive in the zoological community of our country.