Carlos Muñoz Pizarro

During 1939 and 1940 he studied plant taxonomy in the United States of America (USA), first at Harvard University and later at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

That same year he was Vice President of the Biological Science Commission of the VIII American Scientific Congress held in the same city.

He was chairman of the Latin American Committee on National Parks (CLAPN) under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) based in Switzerland.

Many honors were bestowed upon him, but most notably was his appointment, in 1974, as Knight in the Most Excellent Order of the Golden Ark by his Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, for outstanding service in the cause of nature conservation.

His extensive research generated a considerable number of publications, mostly in Spanish, including the "Bibliographic Index of Chilean Grasses (1941), "Synopsis of the Chilean Flora" (1959 and 1966), "Plant Species described by R.A. Philippi in the 19th Century" (1960), "Wild Flowers of Chile" (1966), and "Chile: Endangered Plants Species" (1973).