Rebeca Acevedo

Rebeca Acevedo (23 January 1902 - 7 December 1987) was a Chilean professor and botanist. She was the first woman to head the botanical department of the Chilean National Museum of Natural History in 1947.[1]

Rebeca Acevedo San Martín de Vargas
Born23 January 1902
Died7 December 1987 (1987-12-08) (aged 85)
NationalityChilean
Alma materUniversity of Chile
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsChilean National Museum of Natural History
Author abbrev. (botany)Acevedo

Biography

Acevedo was born in Retiro, Chile, in 1902. She obtained bachelor's degrees in biology and chemistry from the University of Chile in 1924. While at college, she also studied at the Chilean National Museum of Natural History, where she made contact with renowned Chilean scientists such as Carlos E. Porter. She continued working in the museum as an assistant to Maturana Francisco Fuentes, who was the head of the botanical department. Acevedo began to specialize in grasses, and continued working as a curator. She was put in charge of organizing the herbarium started by Carlos Muñoz Pizarro.[2]

In 1947, she became the head of the Museum's botanical department, becoming the first woman to hold that position. She held this position until 1964.[2] As curator of the National Herbarium, she established relationships with various researchers and botanical specialists around the world, such as Carl Skottsberg, Olga Borsini, Otto Solbrig, and Maevia Correa.

Legacy

Species named after Acevedo include Escallonia rebecae by Eberhard Max Leopold Kausel,[3] and Placseptalia rebecae by Marcial Espinosa Bustos.[4]

References

  1. Muñoz, Melica (1991). "100 años de la sección botánica del museo nacional de historia natural" (PDF). Boletín mensual del museo nacional de historia natural. 42: 190. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  2. Muñoz, Melica (2010). Biografía Rebeca Acevedo (in Spanish). Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. Darwiniana 10: 196, fig. 2, no. 7, tab. 3 (1953).
  4. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Santiago de Chile 23: 8 (tt. 1-6) (1947).
  5. IPNI.  Acevedo.
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