Luisa Eugenia Navas Bustamante (27 July 1920 – 18 November 2020) was a Chilean
pharmacist
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and
botanist
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.
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 ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a 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, 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
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, 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
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* Aage Jepsen Sparre, Danish priest
* Arvid Gustavsson Sparre (1245 - 1317), Lord of Ekholmen, Sweden
* Axel Spar ...
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. His grandson, Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados ( ...
) 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 Tübi ...
) 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Navas, Luisa Eugenia
20th-century Chilean botanists
Chilean women botanists
Chilean women scientists
20th-century women scientists
1920 births
2020 deaths
Chilean centenarians
Women centenarians