Jorge Artigas
Jorge Artigas may refer to: * Jorge Artigas (entomologist) (1929–2022), Chilean entomologist * Jorge Artigas (footballer) (born 1975), Argentine football manager and former player {{hndis, Artigas, Jorge ...
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Jorge Artigas (entomologist)
Jorge Narciso Artigas Coch (Santiago March 21, 1929 – December 13, 2022) was a Chilean entomologist and academic of the University of Concepción. Artigas graduated as an agricultural engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. As the university of Concepción had by early 1950s created the Faculty of Agriculture in 1954 Artigas was contracted to impart the course "Agricultural Zoology". In 1967 Artigas obtained a PhD at Ohio State University. In the university of Concepción he was director of the Department of Zoology from 1970 to 2009, and played an important role in consolidating the university's Zoology Museum. In the 1970s he formally described various insect genera, and he continued this work in the late 1980s and 1990s in collaboration with Nelson Papavero. Artigas is also known for developing a staining method for protozoa Protozoa (singular: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free- ...
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