Luisa Eugenia Navas Bustamante (27 July 1920 – 18 November 2020) was a
Chilean pharmacist
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and
botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
.
Life
On 9 May 1951 she received a degree in chemistry and pharmacy. That same year she became Assistant Chair of Botany in the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the
University of Chile
The University of Chile () is a public university, public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843. . In 1958 she was “Professor extraordinarius”, and assistant of
Hugo Gunckel in the
Instituto Pedagógico in the section of the
cryptogamic plants and finally chair Professor in the Faculty Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences the 1985. She studied
seaweed
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, she concurred with his father to the Marine Biology Station at Montemar. With authorization of the Dean of Pharmacy, she went twice a week National
Museum of Natural History of Santiago. On behalf of
Humberto Fuenzalida, she reorganized the Botanical section for Cryptogamy. With a scholarship of
UNESCO
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she studied
plant ecology
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in Mexico, in the Polytechnical School with specialists of Montpellier and of the San Luis of Potosí. Later she concurs to the botanical Garden of the Central University of Caracas.
Taxa described by L.E.Navas
* ''Gavilea longibracteata'' (Lindl.)
Sparre ex L.E.Navas
* ''Dioscorea humifusa'' var.''gracilis'' (
H. et
A.) L.E.Navas
* ''Myrceugenia colchaguensis'' (
Phil.
Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. Philippi contributed primarily to malacology and paleontology, but also published a major work on Diptera of C ...
) L.E.Navas
* ''Parietaria fernandeziana'' (
Steud.
Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (30 May 1783 – 12 May 1856) was a German physician and an authority on grasses.
Biography
Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was born at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg.
He was educated at the University of Tübinge ...
) L.E.Navas
*''Urtica trichantha'' (Wedd.)
Acevedo et L.E.Navas
External links
Flora de la cuenca de Santiago de Chile Tomo I
Notes and references
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20th-century Chilean botanists
Chilean women botanists
20th-century Chilean women scientists
1920 births
2020 deaths
Chilean women centenarians