Abstract:was one of the greatest Brazilian scientists. Soil microbiology was her field, and mainly the role of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in plants. Of Czech origin, she graduated in agronomic engineering at the University of Munich, coming to Brazil after the Second World War and being hired, in 1951, by the
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