Edmundo Pisano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmundo Pisano

Chilean botanist, agricultural engineer and ecologist (1919-1997)

Date of Birth: 19-May-1919

Place of Birth: Punta Arenas, Magellan and the Chilean Antarctic Region, Chile

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1997

Profession: geographer, botanist, ecologist, agricultural engineer

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Edmundo Pisano Valdés (19 May 1919 – 29 March 1997) was a Chilean plant ecologist, botanist and agronomist.
Born in Punta Arenas in Chile's far south Pisano studied agronomy at the University of Chile.
In the late 1960s he returned to Punta Arenas.
Initially he intended to work on in agriculture but eventually he ended up doing research at Instituto de la Patagonia which he founded together with Mateo Martinic and others.The standard author abbreviation Pisano is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.