Misael Acosta Solís (Ambato, December 16, 1910 – Quito, April, 1994) was an Ecuadorian naturalist.
Misael Acosta Solís | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 16, 1910 |
| Died | April, 1994 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | Central University of Ecuador |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador |
He earned a doctorate degree from the School of Natural Science of the Central University of Ecuador.[1] In 1939 he became a corresponding member of the National Geographic Society of Washington DC. He was the Botanical Director of the Cinchona Mission in Ecuador of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He founded the Forestry Department of Ecuador. He was a professor of Botany and Ecology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He wrote the 5-volume resource encyclopedia Los recursos naturales del Ecuador y su conservación (English: The Natural Resources of Ecuador and its Conservation), which was awarded the Wallace Atwood Prize from the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, and for which Acosta Solís was awarded the Humboldt Medal from the Culture Department of West Germany.
In 1968, botanist Jason Richard Swallen published Acostia which is a genus of South American plants in the grass family, which was named in Misael Acosta Solís's honor.[2][3]
In 1982 Acosta Solís was the recipient of the National Merit Award, and 1989 he was the recipient of Ecuador's highest national prize Premio Eugenio Espejo for his work in the scientific field, which is awarded by the President of Ecuador.[4]
References
edit- ^ Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipalidad de Ambato Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Swallen, Jason Richard 1968. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 12: 109
- ^ Webster, R. D., J. H. Kirkbride & J. V. Reyna. 1989. New World genera of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Sida 13(4): 393–417
- ^ "Ganadores del Premio Eugenio Espejo". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29.
Further reading
edit- Cuvi, Nicolás. 2005. "Misael Acosta Solís y el conservacionismo en el Ecuador, 1936-1953". Scripta Nova, 15 de junio, v. IX, N.º 191. En http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-191.htm
- Cuvi, Nicolás. 2005. "La institucionalización del conservacionismo en el Ecuador (1949-1953): Misael Acosta Solís y el Departamento Forestal". Procesos, no. 22 (I y II semestre): 107-129. En http://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec/bitstream/10644/1759/1/RP-22-ES-Cuvi.pdf
- Pérez Pimentel, Rodolfo: Diccionario Biográfico Ecuador, tomo 15 - Misael Acosta Solís
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