He specialized in the study of systems biology of the family Solanaceae, and contributed with a large number of investigations and publications.
Armando Theodoro Hunziker was born 29 August 1919 to a Swiss Argentine family in Chacabuco, Argentina.
He studied agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, where he met his mentor, Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi, who supervised his graduate thesis about the genus Cuscuta, a parasite that affects wild and cultivated plants in Argentina and Uruguay.
In 1945, at the age of 25, Hunziker was nominated curator of the Botanical Museum of the National University of Córdoba, recommended by the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine Bernardo Alberto Houssay.
[1] During his life, he published more than 150 scientific papers and described multiple plant species, including Orchis × kelleri Hunz.