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Tom Kapitany (born 15 December 1960) is an Australian botanist, geologist and entrepreneur. Kapitany is the director of in Victoria, Australia, a director of National Dinosaur Museum in Canberra, Australia, a director of Garden World in Braeside, Victoria, Australia, director of and an international consultant for museums and universities, particularly in China, Mexico, UK, US, New Zealand and Indonesia with regards to geology. Kapitany completed his B.Sc. in geology and botany at the University of Melbourne in 1984 and has held multiple mining tenements around Australia. Kapitany has made numerous donations to the Museum of Victoria and other museums and institutions worldwide. Kapitany is known for raising awareness on the importance of collecting and fossicking minerals and fossils; to educate people and children on fossils and rocks of biological origin. However, as one of Australia's largest commercial dealers of minerals and fossils, he is a controversial figure owing to revelations of his involvement with international fossil smuggling. (en) |
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Tom Kapitany standing next to a large fluorite octahedron specimen on matrix from inner Mongolia. (en) |
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Tom Kapitany (born 15 December 1960) is an Australian botanist, geologist and entrepreneur. Kapitany is the director of in Victoria, Australia, a director of National Dinosaur Museum in Canberra, Australia, a director of Garden World in Braeside, Victoria, Australia, director of and an international consultant for museums and universities, particularly in China, Mexico, UK, US, New Zealand and Indonesia with regards to geology. (en) |
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