Christine Marie Berkhout (13 July 1893,
Malang
Malang (; ) is a landlocked List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, city in the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of East Java. It has a history dating back to the age of Singhasari, Singhasari Kingdom. It is the second most popul ...
– 18 November 1932) was a
mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...
. She described the genus ''
Candida'' in her
doctoral thesis for the
University of Utrecht in the
Netherlands in 1923. This event was later described as marking "the beginning of the rational systematics of the anascosporogenous yeasts".
See also
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List of mycologists
References
1893 births
1932 deaths
Dutch mycologists
People from Malang
Utrecht University alumni
Women mycologists
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