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Maria Isabel Hylton Scott
María Isabel Sofia Hylton Scott y Pacheco (16 August 1889, Córdoba, Argentina – 1 September 1990, La Plata, Argentina)[1] was an Argentine zoologist, malacologist and teacher.[2] She is known as the first woman in Argentina who obtained a doctorate in Zoology.[3] She described at least 1 family, 47 species and 4 subspecies of Mollusca.[1] LifeMaría Isabel Hylton Scott was born on August 16, 1889, in Córdoba, Argentina.[4] Hylton Scott attended the Normal School (Escuela Normal), receiving a teacher degree in 1908. She continued her study at the National University of La Plata, where she obtained the title of professor in Pedagogy and Related Sciences in 1911.[4] She studied under the guidance of Dr. Miguel Fernández and his wife, Dr. Katy Marcinowsky-Fernández who influenced her first scientific works.[3] At the beginning of the World War I, she worked as an assistant in the Zoology laboratory at the Museo de La Plata in 1914.[3] Later in 1916, Hylton Scott became the first women in Argentina to obtain a doctorate in Zoology. Her doctoral thesis was dedicated to the embryology of the viviparous freshwater fish, Fitzroyia lineata (now under Jenynsia, Characiformes: Jenynsüdae).[5] She worked as a head of the Laboratory until 1924[4] and as a substitute professor from 1933 to 1946, returning to this position in 1955.[6] Her university activity was interrupted due to the unstable political situation in Argentina.[3] She participated in some investigational trips, such as to Puerto Madryn in 1916[4] and to Santa Cruz in 1936 with her husband Max Birabén.[6]  In 1954, Hylton Scott and her husband founded the scientific magazine "Neotropica - Notas Zoologicas Americanas", which they kept editing until 1976.[3] Until now Neotropica is indexed in Malacological Review.[3] She retired at the age of 76 in 1965 and accompanied her husband to Buenos Aires, where he was designated Director of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales.[3] She continued her scientific studies in the field of zoology, publishing five new works from 1977 to 1984.[6] In 1977, at the age of 88, she received an honorable medal on the 100th anniversary of the Museo de La Plata.[3] The same year she was named an Honorary Member of the Asociación Argentina de Ciencias Naturales.[3] At the age of 100, Hylton Scott donated her personal collection of mollusks to the Museo de La Plata.[3] Maria Isabel Hylton Scott died on 1 September 1990 in La Plata.[6] She was posthumously designated Honorary President of the 1st Latin American Congress on Malacology in Caracas in 1991.[3] List of described specimensMollusca Genera[1]
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