Johanna Westerdijk (1883 - 1961)
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Biography
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Biography
1906 director of the Willie Commelin Scholten phytopathology lab
1917 professor of plant pathology at the university of Utrecht
1930 professor of plant pathology at the university of Amsterdam
founding director of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures in Baarn, the Netherlands
According to The Dictionary of the Fungi, all of these posts were concurrent: she just kept adding them on without giving any of them up. Busy lady.
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Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, D. L. Hawksworth & P. W. James (1971) Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
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