Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz

Bea Schwarz
Bea Schwarz (left) and her doctoral advisor Johanna Westerdijk in 1922
Born
Marie Beatrice Schwarz

(1898-07-12)12 July 1898
Died27 July 1969(1969-07-27) (aged 71)
Baarn, Netherlands
Alma materUtrecht University
Scientific career
FieldsPhytopathology
Thesis Das Zweigsterben der Ulmen, Trauerweiden und Pfirsichbäume (Twig cancer in elms, weeping willows and peach trees):105
Doctoral advisorJohanna Westerdijk
Author abbrev. (botany)M.B.Schwarz

Marie Beatrice "Bea" Schol-Schwarz (12 July 1898 – 27 July 1969) was the Dutch phytopathologist who discovered the causal fungus of Dutch elm disease. She first studied pathogens afflicting peanuts and later the fungus Phialophora.