Pauline Dy Phon

Cambodian botanist (1933-2010).

Pauline Dy Phon (ប៉ូលីន ឌី ផុន) (1933 – 21 May 2010) (née Tan Pauline) was a Cambodian botanist who specialized in the flora of Southeast Asia. She studied in France, graduating in 1959 from the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. She met her husband Dy Phon, a student of dental surgery, while there. They returned to Cambodia in 1959. She later moved to University of Toulouse in France and was awarded a Ph.D. for her research on botany on the vegetation of south-west Cambodia in 1969. She became a teacher and researcher at the University of Phnom Penh. Her research was on the flora of Cambodia and s