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Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz

Bea Schwarz
Bea Schwarz (left) and her doctoral advisor Johanna Westerdijk in 1922
Born
Marie Beatrice Schwarz

(1898-07-12)12 July 1898
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Died27 July 1969(1969-07-27) (aged 71)
Baarn, Netherlands
Alma materUtrecht University
Scientific career
FieldsPhytopathology
Thesis Das Zweigsterben der Ulmen, Trauerweiden und Pfirsichbäume (Twig cancer in elms, weeping willows and peach trees)[1]: 105 
Doctoral advisorJohanna Westerdijk
Author abbrev. (botany)M.B.Schwarz
Ulmus × hollandica 'Bea Schwarz' in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2004

Marie Beatrice "Bea" Schol-Schwarz (12 July 1898 – 27 July 1969) was the Dutch phytopathologist who discovered the causal fungus of Dutch elm disease. She first studied pathogens afflicting peanuts and later the fungus Phialophora.

  1. ^ Faasse, Patricia; Jackson (translator to English), Beverley (2008). In Splendid Isolation: A History of the Willie Commelin Scholten Phytopathology Laboratory, 1894-1992. Amsterdam University Press. p. 302. doi:10.2307/j.ctt6wp5r0. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help)

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