Lothar Geitler (18 May 1899 – 1 May 1990) was an
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n botanist and cytologist. He was born in Vienna. His main research interests included blue-green algae (
Cyanophyta), diatoms, lichen symbioses and chromosome structure.
The
cyanobacteria genus ''
Geitlerinema'' was named in his honour in 1989.
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1899 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Austrian botanists
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