Léia Akcelrad Lerner de Scheinvar is a Brazilian-Mexican botanist. She has dedicated her work to studying and protecting Mexico's
cacti
A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...
.
Early life and education
Scheinvar was born in
Brazil on 30 September 1954.
She received her doctorate in biology from the
UNAM Faculty of Sciences
The Faculty of Sciences ( es, Facultad de Ciencias) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the entity where natural and exact science-based majors are taught. It has both undergraduate and graduate studies, some of the former in ...
in 1982.
Career
She is responsible for the ''Laboratorio de Cactáceas'' in the botanical garden of
UNAM.
References
External links
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La extinción de los cactus' from ''México Desconocido''
Brazilian emigrants to Mexico
20th-century Brazilian botanists
Mexican botanists
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexican women botanists
Brazilian women botanists
1954 births
Living people
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