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Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Johanna |
Surname: | Westerdijk |
Profession: | Botanist, professor |
Birthday: | 01/04/1883 |
Place of birth: | Amsterdam |
Date of death: | 11/15/1961 |
Place of death: | Baarn, Netherlands |
Education: | 1900–05 university studies (botany) in Amsterdam, Munich, and Zurich; 1905 doctorate |
Career: | 1906 director of the W.C. Scholten Laboratory; 1907 receives collection of eighty fungus cultures, establishes Central Bureau of Fungus Cultures with more than 8,000 species; 1917 professor extraordinarius of plant pathology, University of Utrecht, 1930 appointment to the University of Amsterdam; 1957 honorary doctorate, University of Utrecht; 1958 honorary doctorate, University of Giessen |
Memberships: | 1933–36 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) president; Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences |
Biographical literature: | L.C.P. Kerling and J.G. ten Houten, “Johanna Westerdijk: Pioneer Leader in Plant Pathology,” *Annual Review of Phytopathology* 24 (1986): 33–41; Marie P. Löhnis, “Professor Dr Johanna Westerdijk 1917–1942,” *Antonie van Leeuwenhoek* 8 (1942), no. 1: 1–9 |
Major works: | *Zur Regeneration der Laubmoose* (diss.; Nijmegen: Macdonald, 1905) |