Carmen Lelia Cristóbal facts for kids
Carmen Lelia Cristóbal is an important Argentine professor. She is an expert in botany, which is the study of plants. She teaches at the National University of the Northeast (UNNE) in Corrientes, Argentina.
In 1959, she earned her doctorate degree in botany. She studied at the National University of Tucumán. Her special area of study was the plant family called Sterculiaceae. This family includes many types of trees and shrubs.
Her main research for her doctorate was about a plant group known as Ayenia. Her excellent work on this topic won her two special awards. She received the "Ernesto Padilla" Prize in 1960. She also won the "Cristobal Hicken" Prize in 1961.
In 1962, Cristóbal started working as a docent (teacher) at Tucumán. At the same time, she began her research work for CONICET. CONICET is a big science and technology research council in Argentina.
In 1964, she became a professor of Botany I in Corrientes. She also gave lectures at the Faculty of Exact Sciences there.
Cristóbal and her husband, Antonio Krapovickas, did something very special. They started the Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste (Institute of Botany of the Northeast). This institute is also called Ibone. It has a huge collection of over 250,000 plant samples.
She has written more than 40 scientific works. These include four detailed studies that re-examined how plants are classified. Her work on the plant group Byttneria is especially well-known.
Awards and Distinctions
- "Ernesto Padilla" Prize recipient (1960)
- "Cristobal Hicken" Prize recipient (1961)
- CONICET researcher (1962 – ?)
