Background
DESCOLE, Horacio Raúl was born on February 6, 1910 in Avellaneda, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
DESCOLE, Horacio Raúl was born on February 6, 1910 in Avellaneda, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professor; Assistant in botany, medical. school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1927-1934, associate professor., since 1939. Professor., school of pharmacy and biochemistry, University Nacional de Tucumán, since 1937, director, Institute Miguel Lillo, since 1941, interventor in university, since 1946. Founding director, botany review Lilloa, since 1937.
Director, Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum, and Acta Zoológica Lilloana. President, organizing commission, II Congreso Sudamericano de Botánica. Graduate in Pharmacy, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1929, Doctor of Pharmacy, 1932.
Member: Asociación Bioquímica del Norte (president), Society Científica Argentina, Asociación Bioquímica Argentina, Society Argentina de Escritores, Asociación Sudamericana de Fitotaxonomistas, Torrey Botanical Club, Botanical Society of American, American Association for the Advancement of Science.