Isabel Pérez Farfante, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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carcinologist
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Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba
About Isabel Pérez Farfante
- Isabel Pérez Farfante (July 24, 1916 – August 20, 2009) was a Cuban-born carcinologist.
- She was the first Cuban woman to receive her Ph.D.
- from an Ivy League school.
- She returned to Cuba from the United States only to be blacklisted by Fidel Castro's government.
- She and her family escaped Cuba, and she became one of the world's foremost zoologists studying prawns.
- She discovered large populations of shrimp off the coast of Cuba and published one of the most noted books on shrimps: "Penaeoid and Sergestoid Shrimps and Prawns of the World.
- Keys and Diagnoses for the Families and Genera."
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