Maria Wonenburger

María Josefa Wonenburger Planells (July 17, 1927, in Montrove, Oleiros, Galicia – June 14, 2014, in A Coruña) was a Galician mathematician who did research in the United States and Canada.

She had a passion for mathematics from an early age, though her parents wanted her to study engineering so that she could participate in the family business, a foundry.

Because of her mother's illness, she returned to La Coruña in 1983, and remained away from the academic world, except some sporadic collaboration with institutions such as AGAPEMA.

She directed eight doctoral theses; in addition to Moody, her students included Stephen Berman, Bette Warren, Edward George Gibson, and Richard Lawrence Marcuson.

In 2010, the Galician government and University of A Coruña established the María Josefa Wonenburger Planells Prize in her honor.