Katharina Mangold-Wirz
Katharine Maria Mangold-Wirz', née Wirz, (born Basel 23 May 1922 - died 2003) was a Swiss marine biologist and malacologist, who worked at Université Pierre et Marie Curie's Laboratoire Arago in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.[1]
Mangold_wirz was born in Basel on 23 May 1922 to Eduard Wirz (1891-1970), a teacher, historian and writer, and Clara Wirz-Burgin. She graduated from high school in Basel in 1940 and went to Basel University to study medicine from 1940-43, studying Zoology from 1943-48 achieving a D.Phil with her thesis being published in 1950 in Acta Anatomica. She was awarded a 3 year scholarship at the Janggen-Pöhn Foundation of St Gallen to carry out research on Opisthobranchs from 1950 in Villefranche-sur-Mer and Banyuls-sur-Mer. In 1951 she was appointed as a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique and her focus from then was on the biology of cephalopods.[2]
References
- ^ "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. M". Hans.G.Hansson. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Louise M. Allcock; Sigurd Von Boletzky; Laure Bonnaud; Erica A. G. Vidal (2015). "The role of female cephalopod researchers: past and present". Journal of Natural History. 49 (21–24): 1235–1266.