Norma Etta Pfeiffer
Norma Etta Pfeiffer | |
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| Born | 1889 |
| Died | 23 August 1989 (aged 99–100) |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | University of North Dakota, Boyce Thompson Institute |
| Thesis | Morphology of Thismia americana (1913) |
| Doctoral advisor | John M. Coulter |
Norma Etta Pfeiffer (1889–1989) was an American botanist who specialized in the study of lilies and Isoetes. She discovered and described the Chicago-endemic flowering plant species Thismia americana described in her doctoral thesis in 1913.