page_title: Josif Pančić
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Josif Pančić / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: 10 Yugoslav dinars note (1994 dinar)
context_page_description: Josif Pančić was a Serbian botanist, Doctor of Medicine, a lecturer at the Great School, the future University of Belgrade, and the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy. He extensively documented the flora of Serbia, and is credited with having classified many species of plants which were unknown to the botanical community at that time. Pančić is credited for discovering the Serbian Spruce. He is regarded as the father of Serbian botany.
context_section_description: A research society has been named after him, Josif Pančić Biological Research Society (Biološko istraživačko društvo "Josif Pančić"). He was depicted on the 10 Dinars note printed in 1994. He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs. In 1951 the highest point in the Kopaonik mountain range was changed from Milan Peak to Pančić's Peak.
  On April 17, 2010, Google celebrated his birthday with a Google Doodle.
caption: Pančić portrait on 10 Yugoslav dinars note, 1994
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