OBITUARY Alejandro Escobar (1955-2022)

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Alejandro Escobar
January 8, 1955 - June 4, 2022

Alejandro Escobar started working in the Darwinion back in 1985-1986, when he joined the laboratory of Dr. Juan Hunziker to work on cytogenetics. Shortly after, he began his tasks at our institute as a laboratory technician mainly dedicated to chromosome counting and karyotype analysis. An agronomist trained at the University of Buenos Aires, and a graduate of the National College of Buenos Aires, he was a student of our remembered Professor Rosa Guaglianone, who influenced his interest in Botany and the Darwinion. Alejandro had a vast general culture and passion for the topics of astronomy and space technology. With him one could talk about various topics: geography, history, art, medicine, literature, and economics, at a time when Wikipedia and the Internet still did not exist in anyone’s imagination. With impeccable manners, he also had a keen ability to observe people, a great sense of humor and of the ridicule. Thanks to these talents, his comments and observations were very witty, avoiding during a work trip, a serious health risk to the writer. Alejandro always kept his kind character and the memory of numerous Darwinion stories that continued to amuse new and old members of our institute.

Goodbye Alejandro, thanks for so many good times.

Raul Pozner