Beatriz Levi

Beatriz Levi Dresner (6 April 1930 – 22 January 2022) was a Chilean mining engineer. A refugee from Benito Mussolini's fascist regime, she became interested in earth sciences as a student at the University of Chile School of Engineering and became one of Chile's first woman mining engineers. She later worked for CORFO and, due to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, later fled to Sweden, where she became part of the Stockholm University faculty.

Biography

She was born on 6 April 1930 in Milan, Italy, from an italian-Jewish family who immigrated to Chile in 1939 due to Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. for "studies in igneous and metamorphic petrology". She was awarded the 1988 Medalla al Mérito "Juan Brüggen" for services to Chilean geology and elected honorary member of the Chilean Institute of Mining Engineers in 1994.