Anna Maurizio

Anna Maurizio (26 November 1900[1][2][3] – 24 July 1993)[4] 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.

[5] Maurizio was born in Zurich, the daughter of botanist and cultural historian Adam Maurizio.

[clarification needed] She began work at the Federal Station of Dairy and Bacteriology in Liebefeld-Bern in 1928 and retired in 1966.

[6] She died in Switzerland, aged about 93.