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Buczkó, K.: In memoriam Dr. Zsuzsanna P.-Komáromy (1942-1985)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus78. Budapest, 1986 p. 11-14. In memóriám Dr. Zsuzsanna P.-Komáromy (1942—1985) by K. BUCZKÓ, Budapest DR. ZSUZSANNA P. KOMÁROMY, soil algologist of the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum died after a long illness on 17 August, 1985. Born in Veszprém on 20 March, 1942, she attended secondary school in Veszprém and continued her studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She graduated in 1965 and became a teacher of biology and geography. She started studying algae during her university years under the guidance of DR. L. FELFÖLDY in the Biological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Tihany, where she worked on the problems of algal production. She was successful in producing synchronous culture of Scenedesmus obtusiusculus CHOD., and summarized her results in a Scientific Student Society paper. She started to work in the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum as a museologist in 1966, and it was then that she began to focus her attention on