Argentine botanist. Elisa Nicora was born in Buenos Aires where she soon became interested in the natural sciences and went on to study at the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She soon developed a particular interest in botany and became a disciple of L. R. Parodi, the Argentine agrostologist, and Nicora published her first work on the genus Eragrostis (Gramineae) in 1938. She became a researcher in botany at UBA before moving to the Darwinion Institute of Botany in San Isidro in 1941. Here she remained throughout the 1940s as an assistant botanist for the journal Darwiniana and focused her research on the groups Gallardoa (Malpighiaceae) and Scleranthus (Cariophyllaceae).

In 1945 she accompanied A. L. Cabrera as a founding member of the Argentine Society of Botany and the two would remain associates from this point onwards. Later in the 1960s she returned to the UBA to work as Parodi’s assistant and became a curator of the Herbarium Gaspar Xuárez (BAA). She remained here until 1974 researching the Gramineae before returning the Darwinian Institute where she worked as a researcher for CONICET (the National Council for Research in Science and Technology) until she retired. Nicora spent much of her time improving the catalogues of the herbaria at both institutions and her skill in the identification of herbarium specimens was much appreciated. In 1978 she published an entire volume for the project Flora Patagónica'on the Gramineae. She enjoyed fieldwork and collection trips very much, travelling in remote areas such as southern Patagonia, and during her life amassed around 10,400 specimens, most but not all of which were grasses.

Sources:
Rúgolo de Agrasar, Z. E., 2001, "Obituarios: Elisa G. Nicora (1912-2001)", Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 36(1-2):185-189.