Israel Reichert
Israel Reichert | |
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ישראל רייכרט | |
| Born | 5 August 1891 |
| Died | 22 May 1975 (aged 83) |
| Nationality |  Poland  Israel |
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| Awards | Israel Prize (1955) |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Phytopathology |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Thesis | Fungi of Egypt |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Reichert |
Israel Reichert (Hebrew: ישראל רייכרט) (5 August 1891 – 22 May 1975) was a Polish-born Israeli agriculturist and biologist who established the field of phytopathology in Israel. He worked on the management of rusts and smuts of field and fruit crops.
Biography
[edit]Israel Reichert was born in Ozorkow, Poland to Eliezer Chaim Layzer and Ruchama Reichert. He immigrated to what was then Ottoman Palestine in 1908. He worked as a labourer and then taught natural history. He studied botany at the University of Berlin under Adolf Engler, writing his thesis on the fungi of Egypt.
Scientific career
[edit]He applied biogeographical principles to fungi and worked on the management of plant pathogenic fungi. He worked in Italy briefly in 1921 and then moved back to Palestine to start a department of plant pathology. In 1942 he moved to the Hebrew University's School of Agriculture at Rehovot. He served as a professor from 1949 to 1959, co-founding the Palestine Journal of Botany in 1938.[1][2]
Awards and recognition
[edit]- In 1955, Reichert was awarded the Israel Prize, for the life sciences.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Katan, Jaacov (2009). "Phytopathology in Israel: Nine decades of research". Phytoparasitica. 37 (4): 333–336. doi:10.1007/s12600-009-0046-3. S2CID 37320647.
- ^ Kenneth, R.; Ciccarone, Antonio (1976). "Professor Israel Reichert in Memoriam". Phytoparasitica. 4: 71–73. doi:10.1007/BF02981082. S2CID 39705499.
- ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1955 (in Hebrew)". cms.education.gov.il (Israel Prize official website). Archived from the original on June 12, 2012.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Reichert.
See also
[edit]| International | |
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| National | |
| Academics | |
- Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Israel Prize in life sciences recipients
- Israel Prize in life sciences recipients who were agriculturists
- Israeli biologists
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli Jews
- 1891 births
- 1975 deaths
- 20th-century biologists