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Pallis
Pallis ( el, Πάλλης) is a Greek surname and may refer to: * Alexandros Pallis (1851–1935), Greek educational and language reformer who translated the New Testament into Modern Greek * Chris Pallis (1923–2005), Anglo-Greek neurologist and socialist intellectual * Jani Macari Pallis Jani Macari Pallis is the founder and CEO of Cislunar Aerodynamics in San Francisco, California. She is also an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her areas of expertise are ..., American academic, engineer, and executive * Konstantinos Pallis (1871–1941), Greek Army staff officer, who served as chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor * Marco Pallis (1895–1989), Greek-British author and mountaineer * Marietta Pallis (1882–1963), Greek-Briton ecologist and botanical artist See also *Palli (other) {{surname Greek-language surnames Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marietta Pallis
Marietta Pallis (1882–1963) was a Greeks, Greek-Briton ecology, ecologist and botany, botanical artist. She is noted for research in aquatic botany, especially the Norfolk Broads and the Danube Delta as well as her creation of devotional landscapes. Biography Pallis was born in Bombay, the daughter of the Greeks, Greek poet and language reformer Alexandros Pallis. She moved to England when she was 12 and was brought up in Liverpool. Her younger brother was Marco Pallis, an author and mountaineer who wrote about Tibet. From 1904 to 1907 she studied botany at Liverpool University and attended Newnham College, Cambridge from 1910 to 1912. Pallis rented and later owned Long Gores farm, marshland property in Hickling, Norfolk. Pallis studied the plav, floating reed systems of the Danube Delta; writing a paper for the journal of the Linnaean Society in 1916. Following her father's death in 1935, Pallis travelled the eastern Mediterranean with her partner Phyllis Clark. She purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |