Christine Marie Berkhout Explained

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]

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  1. Barnett . J. A. . A history of research on yeasts 8: Taxonomy . 10.1002/yea.1154 . . 21 . 14 . 1141–1193 . 2004 . 15515119. 34671745 . free .