Elisa Hirschhorn de Mazoti (12 July 1905 – 23 June 1995) was an Argentine mycologist who specialized in smuts, a type of fungus with a large amount of teliospores.
[1] She was educated at a primary school in San José, Entre Ríos and at the Colegio del Uruguay, before receiving her professor degree at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in 1929.
[1] She was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow in 1944 and 1945 for the purposes of studying smuts,[2] so she was able to remain at the University of Minnesota before continuing at the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany.
[7] In 1989, Hirschhorn was elected an honorary member of the Sociedad Argentina de Botánica [es] and, at a diplomatic reception at the Embassy of the United States, Buenos Aires, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
[1] After her death, Carlos Naranjo said that Hirschhorn "will be here forever in every little piece of [the Phytotechnical Institute of] Santa Catalina, and we will only have to think about her to feel her presence.