Margarita Bravo Hollis

Margarita Bravo Hollis (10 June 1911 – 13 December 2011) was a Mexican parasitologist. A 1955 Guggenheim Fellow and expert in helminthology, she worked at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as a researcher and educator, and she managed UNAM's helminthological research as curator of the Helminthological Collection of the Institute of Biology and co-developer of the Helminthology Laboratory.

Biography Margarita Bravo Hollis was born on 10 June 1911 in Mixcoac, then part of the Mexican Federal District separate from Mexico City. She joined the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Institute of Biology in the 1930s, (Sources vary on the date she joined; while Lamothe-Argumedo says 1932, for "studies of the trematode parasites of fishes"; she worked under Harold W.) Manter at the University of Nebraska. she eventually retired in 1992.