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Elke Mackenzie
1911 – 1990
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryElke Mackenzie, born Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, was a British polar explorer and botanist who specialised in the field of lichenology. Beginning her education in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mackenzie later pursued botany at the University of Edinburgh, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933 and a Doctor of Science in 1942. In the two years she was involved in Operation Tabarin, a covert World War II mission to Antarctica, she identified and documented many lichen species, several of them previously unknown to science.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
September 11, 1911
London
Date of death
January 18, 1990
Braintree
Citizenship
United Kingdom · United States · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupations & fields
botanistlichenologistbotanical collectorscientific collectormycologist
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