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Elsa Nyholm

Biology

#15865

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#19934

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Botany

#748

World Rank

#1883

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Elsa Nyholm's Degrees

PhD Botany Stockholm University
Masters Biology Uppsala University
Bachelors Biology Uppsala University

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According to Wikipedia, Elsa Cecilia Nyholm was a Swedish botanist, in particular bryologist, and researcher at Lund University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Elsa Nyholm was born at a farm a in Nordanå in rural Scania, southernmost Sweden. Despite a strong interest in natural history, she was not allowed to attend grammar school. Instead, she went to handicraft and household schools and developed her interest in nature on the side. In 1932, she got a job as museum assistant at the Lund University botanical museum. There, she specialized in bryology and conceived the idea of a grand moss flora of Northern Europe. Although lacking a formal academic degree, she found support at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and received research council grants from 1954 to 1964 to undertake the work. From 1964 to her retirement, she was the head curator of the moss herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

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Elsa Nyholm's Published Works

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Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia (1955) (434)
Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia. II. Musci. Fasc 3 (1959) (106)
The European Species of the Bryum erythrocarpum Complex (1964) (77)
Oral vitamin B12 can change our practice (2003) (65)
Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses. Fasc. 1. Fissidentaceae-Seligeriaceae (1988) (51)
Notes on the arthropod fauna of Spitsbergen II. 9: Mallophaga from Spitsbergen and Bear Island (1968) (18)
A revision of Weissia, subgenus Astomum I. The European species (1974) (16)
Some additions to the bryophyte flora of Turkey. I. Hepaticae (1979) (14)
Notes on the Genus Tortella. I (1962) (12)
Tortula freibergii Dix. & Loeske in Sussex, new to the British Isles (1972) (11)
A case of Haemophilus parainfluenzae meningitis in an adult associated with acute myositis (1980) (10)
A study of Campylium hispidulum and related species (1962) (10)
A revision ofWeissia, subgenusAstomumI. The European species (1972) (8)
General practitioner prescribing of erythropoietin. (1991) (5)
A Bryophyte Flora of Scandinavia@@@Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia. I. Hepaticae.@@@Illustrated Moss Flora of Fennoscandia. II. Musci. (1957) (4)
Notes on the Genus Tortella II. Tortella arctica (1963) (4)
Amblystegium Saxatile Schimp. in Cornwall, new to the British Isles (1964) (4)
Oral or parenteral therapy for vitamin B12 deficiency (1999) (3)
Demonstrating Your Competence 1: Healthcare Teaching (2005) (3)
Bryum salinum Hagen ex Limpr. in Britain and in America (1958) (2)
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis: report of a case. (1982) (2)
Seligeria diversifolia Lindb. in Yorkshire, new to the British Isles (1973) (1)
Notes on some northern species of pohlia (1976) (1)
Studies in the moss flora of the Faroes. 3. Anisothecium crispum Lindb. var. atlanticum C. Jens. (1984) (0)
Experiments with breeding of pine martens (Martes martes L.) in farm conditions at Kuusamo. (1980) (0)
Nathan Petter Herman Persson 1893–1978 (1980) (0)

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