Christine Marie Berkhout | |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1893 |
Birth Place: | Malang, Indonesia |
Death Date: | 18 November 1932 |
Nationality: | Dutch |
Alma Mater: | University of Utrecht |
Occupation: | mycologist |
Christine Marie Berkhout (13 July 1893, Malang – 18 November 1932) was a mycologist. 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".[1]