Anna Maurizio


Anna Maurizio was a Swiss biologist who studied bees. She worked for more than three decades in the Department of Bees at the Liebefeld Federal Dairy Industry and Bacteriological Institute, where she developed new methods for determining the amount of pollen in honey.

Life

Anna Maurizio was born in Zurich, the daughter of the botanist and cultural historian Adam Maurizio. She studied at a gymnasium in Lviv, then graduated from High school of agriculture in Dubliany in 1923. She began work at the Federal Station of Dairy and Bacteriology in Liebefeld-Bern in 1928 and retired in 1966. She died in Switzerland, aged about 93.

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