Johanna Döbereiner

Johanna Döbereiner
Born	28 November 1924 Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia
Died	5 October 2000 (aged 75) Seropédica, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Awards	UNESCO Science Prize (1989) Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología (1992)

Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner (28 November 1924 – 5 October 2000) was a Brazilian agronomist. Her family were German Czechoslovakians who left the country after World War II. She received her degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, but settled in Brazil and became a Brazilian citizen in 1956. Her early work includes studies of Azospirillum and other bacteria that could be useful to Brazilian soil.^[1] She later played an important role in Brazil's soybean production by encouraging a reliance on varieties that solely depended on biological nitrogen fixation.^[2]

References

1. History of discovery of N2-fixing organisms, UCLA at the Wayback Machine (archived July 9, 2010)
2. Baldani, J.I.; et al. "Johanna Döbereiner Memorial Lecture". In Finan, Turlough M.; et al. Nitrogen Fixation: Global Perspectives : Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2-7 July 2001. CABI Publishing. p. 3.