Elke Mackenzie
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Elke Mackenzie, born Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, was a British polar explorer and botanist who specialised in the field of lichenology. Beginning her education in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mackenzie later pursued botany at the University of Edinburgh, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933 and a Doctor of Science in 1942.
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Operation Tabarin. Base A, Port Lockroy; photographed by Mackenzie in 1945
Isotype of Buellia russa var. cycloplaca from Trinity Peninsula; collected by Mackenzie in 1945
Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany
MacKenzie never finished her magnum opus: a worldwide monograph on the lichen genus Stereocaulon. Shown is Stereocaulon alpinum, widely distributed in the Antarctic.
Placopsis lambii is one of several species named in honour of Mackenzie.Scientists from United Kingdom 6
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Elke Mackenzie, born Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, was a British polar explorer and botanist who specialised in the field of lichenology. Beginning her education in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mackenzie later pursued botany at the University of Edinburgh, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933 and a Doctor of Science in 1942. In the two years she was involved in Operation Tabarin, a covert World War II mission to Antarctica, she identified and documented many lichen species, several of them previously unknown to science.
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