József Pantocsek

József Pantocsek (15 October 1846 – 4 September 1916) was a Hungarian physician, micropaleontologist and botanist who specialized in the diatoms, describing nearly 1300 taxa.

He grew up in Tovarníky where his mother bought an estate and went to school in Nitra, Kalksburg in Vienna and Esztergom.

[1][2] From 1866 he began to collect botanical specimens through the region, travelling through Montenegro, Herzegovina and the Carpathians.

From the 1880s he made extensive collections of fossil and extant diatoms, documenting them with pioneering microphotographs.

In 1913 he provided low-resolution analysis of diatom species with their presence and absence along sections of a 4 m long core taken from the Siófok Basin.