Mall Vaasma
{{Short description|Estonian mycologist}}
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| birth_date = 22 February 1945
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| death_date = 4 December 2009
| death_place = Tartu, Estonia
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| nationality = Estonian
| alma_mater = University of Tartu
| occupation = Mycologist
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Mall Vaasma (22 February 1945 – 4 December 2009) was one of Estonia's top mycologists. She graduated from the University of Tartu in 1974 with a degree in botany. After her graduation, she worked as a senior lab assistant{{cite web|url=http://pk.emu.ee/437196 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110720124857/http://pk.emu.ee/437196 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-20 |title=Research and teaching staff |accessdate=2009-12-16 }} for Department of Mycology at the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany from 1973 {{cite web |url= https://www.etis.ee/portaal/isikuCV.aspx?TextBoxName=vaasma&PersonVID=6997&lang=en&FromUrl0=isikud.aspx|title= Mall Vaasma |author= |date= |publisher= Estonian Research Portal |accessdate=2009-12-16}} and at the Natural History Museum of the University of Tartu from 2008 until her death in 2009 after being struck by a motorist while crossing the road in Tartu.{{Cite web|date=2009-12-07|title=Ülekäigurajal hukkus tuntud seeneteadlane|url=https://tartu.postimees.ee/197793/ulekaigurajal-hukkus-tuntud-seeneteadlane|access-date=2020-12-09|website=Tartu Postimees|language=et}}
She also co-authored a number of works on mushrooms.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160129233223/http://www.looduskalender.ee/node/4937 Photo at Looduskalender] (Estonian)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720130231/http://elurikkus.ut.ee/inmemoriam.php News of her death on eElurikkus] (Estonian)
- [http://www.tartupostimees.ee/?id=197793 News of her death] on Postimees, December 7, 2009 (Estonian)
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Category:University of Tartu alumni
Category:Road incident deaths in Estonia
Category:Pedestrian road incident deaths
Category:20th-century Estonian women scientists
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