Christine Marie Berkhout, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christine Marie Berkhout

Dutch biologist

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1893

Place of Birth: Malang, Indonesia

Date of Death: 18-Nov-1932

Profession: biologist, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Christine Marie Berkhout (13 July 1893, Malang – 18 November 1932) was a mycologist.
She described the genus Candida in her doctoral thesis for the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1923.
This event was later described as marking "the beginning of the rational systematics of the anascosporogenous yeasts" .