Ana María Ragonese

Ana María Ragonese (2 July 1928 – 19 July 1999) was an Argentine botanist and paleobotanist. She researched plant anatomy, focusing on dicotyledons and the anatomy of the fruit and foliage of Frankeniaceae. Ragonese taught at the University of Buenos Aires and was a researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Later in her career, she conducted paleobotanical research at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum and worked at the Darwinian Institute of Botany.

Early life and education Ana María Ragonese was born on 2 July 1928 in Buenos Aires. She attended the University of Buenos Aires, earning a doctorate in natural sciences at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences in 1960.

In 1962, Ragonese became a researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires. Ragonese was awarded a CONICET scholarship in 1971 and conducted research at the Jodrell Laboratory of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. In 1974, Ragonese was the technical secretary of the Miguel Lillo Institute of the National University of Tucumán and a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Botany.

Ragonese conducted research in the paleobotany division of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires. She later worked at the Darwinian Institute of Botany until she retired in 1990. She was a member of the International Association of Wood Anatomists and the Argentine Society of Botany.

Ragonese died on 19 July 1999.

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