Grace Marion Waterhouse | |
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Born | July 23, 1906 Southwest London |
Died | May 9, 1996 | (aged 89)
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Mycologist |
Grace Marion Waterhouse (1906-1996) was a British mycologist who worked for the International Mycological Institute in Kew for 20 years. She was an expert on the identification and taxonomy of Phytophthora plant pathogens. She gathered a large collection of Phytophthora cultures, and published two seminal works on the genus: a key to the species and a compilation of species descriptions.[1][2]