List of mycologists
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This is a list of mycologists, or scientist
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A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
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Mycology
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals , food and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or...
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Author citation (botany)
In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...
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- Erik AchariusErik AchariusErik Acharius was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology"....
(1757–1819) — Ach. - Michel AdansonMichel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
(1727–1806) — Adans. - Geoffrey Clough AinsworthGeoffrey Clough AinsworthGeoffrey Clough Ainsworth was a British mycologist and scientific historian.- Education and work :...
(1905–1998) — Ainsw. - George Francis Atkinson (1854–1918) — G.F.Atk.
- Adam AfzeliusAdam AfzeliusAdam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...
(1750–1837) — Afzel. - Carl Adolph AgardhCarl Adolph AgardhCarl Adolph Agardh was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad.-Biography:...
(1785–1859) — C.Agardh - Jacob Georg AgardhJacob Georg AgardhJacob Georg Agardh was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.-Biography:He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and in 1854 was appointed professor of botany at Lund University...
(1813–1901) — J.Agardh - Constantine John Alexopolous (1907–1986) — Alexop.
- Ruth F. AllenRuth F. AllenRuth Florence Allen was an American plant pathologist. She increased the understanding of cytology of rust fungi, which are a chief cause of cereal diseases. These diseases can have a devastating effect on coffee, apple and pine trees....
(1879–1963) — - David AroraDavid AroraDavid Arora is an American mycologist, naturalist, and writer. He is the author of two popular books on mushroom identification, Mushrooms Demystified and All That the Rain Promises and More.......
(1953–) — D.Arora - Joseph Charles ArthurJoseph Charles ArthurJoseph Charles Arthur was an American botanist known for his investigations into rusts . He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1923.- External links :*...
(1850–1942) — Arthur
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- Churchill BabingtonChurchill BabingtonChurchill Babington was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire....
(1821–1889) — C.Bab. - Charles David BadhamCharles David BadhamRev. Dr. Charles David Badham MD, FRCP was an English writer, physician, entomologist, and mycologist.-Background and education:...
(1805–1857) — Badham - Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-CrivelliGiuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-CrivelliGiuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli was an Italian naturalist, born 1800-09-01 in Milan, died 1874-11-15 in Pavia.He became professor of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Pavia in 1851, and was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in 1863...
(1800–1874) — Bals.-Criv. - Anton de BaryAnton de BaryHeinrich Anton de Bary was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ....
(1831–1888) — de Bary - August Johann Georg Karl BatschAugust BatschDr August Johann Georg Karl Batsch was a German naturalist. He was a recognised authority on mushrooms, and also described new species of ferns, bryophytes, and seed plants.- Life and career :...
(1761–1802) — Batsch - Gaspard BauhinGaspard BauhinGaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin , was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici , which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus...
(1560–1624) — C.Bauhin - Johann BauhinJohann BauhinJohann Bauhin was a Swiss botanist.He studied botany at Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs . He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practise of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566...
(1541–1613) — J.Bauhin - Henry Curtis Beardslee (1865–1948) — Beardslee
- Maurice BeeliMaurice BeeliMaurice Beeli was a Belgian mycologist. A collaborator of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium, he kickstarted interest from Belgian scientist in tropical macromycetes and initiated work on the Flore iconographique des champignons du Congo, precursor to the Flore illustrée des champignons...
(1879–1957) — Beeli - Miles Joseph BerkeleyMiles Joseph BerkeleyMiles Joseph Berkeley was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology....
(1803–1889) — Berk. - Christine Marie BerkhoutChristine Marie BerkhoutChristine Marie Berkhout was a mycologist. She described the genus Candida in her doctoral thesis for the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1923. This event was later described as marking "the beginning of the rational systematics of the anascosporogenous yeasts" .-References:...
(1893–1932) — Berkh. - Howard E. BigelowHoward E. BigelowHoward E. Bigelow was an American mycologist, born in 1923 in Greenfield, Massachusetts and died in 1987.He studied at Oberlin College from 1941 to 1943. He left college to fight in the American army. He returned to Oberlin after the war and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1949 and his Master of...
(1923–1987) — H.E.Bigelow - Guy Richard Bisby (1889–1958) — Bisby
- Carl Ludwig BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
(1789–1862) — Blume - James BoltonJames BoltonJames Bolton was an English naturalist, botanist, mycologist, and illustrator.-Background:James Bolton was born near Warley in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1735, the son of William Bolton, a weaver. James initially followed in his father's trade, but later became a self-taught art teacher and...
(1758–1799) — Bolton - Marcel BonMarcel BonMarcel Bon is one of France’s best known field mycologists. He was born in Picardy, in 1925 and came to mycology through general botany, and pharmacology...
(1925– ) — Bon - Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (1773–1858) — Bonpl.
- Jean Louis Émile BoudierJean Louis Émile BoudierJean Louis Émile Boudier was a pharmacist who lived in Montmorency, France. He published a fair amount about the Discomycetes and other areas of mycology...
(1828–1920) — Boud. - Hubert BourdotHubert BourdotHubert Bourdot was a French Roman Catholic priest and mycologist who was a native of Imphy, a community in the department of Nièvre....
(1861–1937) — Bourdot - Julius Oscar BrefeldJulius Oscar BrefeldJulius Oscar Brefeld , usually just Oscar Brefeld, was a German botanist and mycologist.-Biography:Brefeld was a native of Telgte. He studied pharmacy in Heidelberg and Berlin, and afterwards became an assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Halle...
(1839–1925) — Bref. - Giacomo BresadolaGiacomo BresadolaGiacomo Bresadola 14 February 1847 – Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist. Fungi he named include the deadly Lepiota helveola and Inocybe patouillardii, though the latter is now known as Inocybe erubescens as this latter description predated Bresadola's by a year...
(1847–1929) — Bres. - Nathaniel Lord BrittonNathaniel Lord BrittonNathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York. Britton was born in New Dorp in Staten Island, New York...
(1859–1934) — Britton - Max BritzelmayrMax BritzelmayrMax Britzelmayr was a German mycologist and lichenologist who was a native of Augsburg.He spent his career as a schoolteacher and Kreisschulinspektor in Augsburg...
(1839–1909) — Britzelm. - Irwin Murray BrodoIrwin Murray BrodoDr. Irwin M. Brodo is an emeritus scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a world authority on the identification and biology of lichens. Irwin Brodo was honored in 1994 with an Acharius Medal presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology.Dr...
(1935– ) — Brodo - Frederick Thom Brooks (1882–1952) — F.T.Brooks
- Christopher Edmund BroomeChristopher Edmund BroomeChristopher Edmund Broome was a British mycologist.-Background and education:C.E. Broome was born in Berkhamsted, the son of a solicitor. He was privately schooled in Kensington and in 1832 was sent to read for Holy Orders with the curate of Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire...
(1812–1886) — Broome - Thomas D. Bruns — T.D.Bruns
- Arthur Henry Reginald BullerArthur Henry Reginald BullerArthur Henry Reginald Buller was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust.- Academic career :...
(1874–1944) — Buller - Jean Baptiste François Pierre BulliardJean Baptiste François Pierre BulliardJean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard was a French physician and botanist....
(1742–1793) — Bull. - Gertrude Simmons BurlinghamGertrude Simmons BurlinghamGertrude Simmons Burlingham was an early 20th century mycologist best known for her work on American Russula and Lactarius and pioneering the use of microscopic spore features and iodine staining for species identification...
(1872–1952) — Burl. - John Harrison BurnettJohn Harrison BurnettSir John Harrison Burnett was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1979 to 1987.-External links:*...
(1922–2007) — J.H.Burnett - Edward Angus Burt (1859–1939) — Burt
- Edwin John ButlerEdwin John ButlerSir Edwin John Butler FRS was a British mycologist and plant pathologist. He became the Imperial Mycologist in India and later the first director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in England. He was knighted in 1939....
(1874–1943) — E.J.Butler
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- A. P. de CandolleA. P. de CandolleAugustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
(1778–1841) — DC. - George Washington CarverGeorge Washington CarverGeorge Washington Carver , was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he is believed to have been born into slavery in Missouri in January 1864....
(1864–1943) — Carver - Ignacio ChapelaIgnacio ChapelaIgnacio Chapela is an microbial ecologist and mycologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for a controversial 2001 paper in Nature on the flow of transgenes into wild maize populations, as an outspoken critic of the University of California's ties to the biotechnology...
— Chapela - John Burton ClelandJohn Burton ClelandSir John Burton Cleland CBE was a renowned Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist.-Early Life and education:...
(1878–1971) — Cleland - Melville Thurston Cook (1869–1952) — M.T.Cook
- Orator Fuller Cook (1867–1949) — O.F.Cook
- Mordecai Cubitt CookeMordecai Cubitt CookeMordecai Cubitt Cooke was an English botanist and mycologist.Cooke came from a mercantile family in Horning, Norfolk, and worked as an apprentice to a fabric merchant before becoming a clerk in a law firm, but his chief interest was in botany. He founded the Society of Amateur Botanists in 1862...
(1825–1914) — Cooke - William Bridge Cooke (1908–1991) — W.B.Cooke
- August Carl Joseph CordaAugust Carl Joseph CordaAugust Carl Joseph Corda was a Czech physician and mycologist.-Early life and education:Corda was born in Reichenberg , Bohemia on November 15, 1809. Corda's father was a textile seller...
(1809–1849) — Corda - Edred John Henry Corner (1906–1996) — Corner
- Carl Franz Joseph Erich Correns (1864–1933) — Correns
- A.D. CottonArthur Disbrowe CottonArthur Disbrowe Cotton was an English plant pathologist, mycologist, phycologist, and botanist.A.D. Cotton was born in London and educated at King's College School and the Royal College of Science, where he completed a degree in botany in 1901...
(1879–1962) — Cotton - Charles CrosslandCharles Crossland-Background and career:Charles Crossland was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. His parents ran a general store and Charles left school at 13 to help them run the business. He trained as a butcher and opened a shop in Wyke in 1864, the same year he married Mary Ann Cragg. The couple had four children, two...
(1844–1916) — Crossl. - Gordon Herriott Cunningham (1892–1962) — G.Cunn.
- Frederick CurreyFrederick CurreyFrederick Currey was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1872.-Rugby union career:Currey made his international debut on 5 February 1872 at The Oval in the England vs Scotland match.-References:...
(1819–1881) — Curr. - William CurtisWilliam CurtisWilliam Curtis was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire.Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended...
(1746–1799) — Curtis
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- Grant Dooks Darker (1898–1979) — Darker
- Frederick Claude Deighton (1903–1992) — Deighton
- Edouard Georges Delacroix (1858–1907) — Delacr.
- R.W.G. Dennis (1910–2003) — Dennis
- Guiseppe De Notaris (1805–1877) — De Not.
- René Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier...
(1750–1833) — Desf. - Dennis E. Desjardin (1950– ) — Desjardin
- John Baptiste Henri Joseph DesmazièresJohn Baptiste Henri Joseph DesmazièresJohn Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières was a merchant of Lille and amateur mycologist from France...
(1786–1862) — Desm. - Nicaise Auguste DesvauxNicaise Auguste Desvaux-Works:*Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts .*Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers ....
(1784–1856) — Desv. - James DicksonJames Dickson (biologist)James Dickson was a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae, a four-volume work in which he published over 400 species of algae and fungi that occur in the British Isles...
(1738–1822) — Dicks. - Johann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist.Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the University of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum, and printed, in 1719, his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium, illustrated...
(1687–1747) — Dill. - Joan DingleyJoan DingleyDr Joan Marjore Dingley OBE was one of the pioneer women of New Zealand science. She worked for the DSIRPlant Diseases Division from 1941 to 1976, becoming the head of mycology....
— Dingley - Carroll William Dodge (1895–1988) — C.W.Dodge
- Ethel Mary Doidge (1887–1965) — Doidge
- Marinus Anton Donk (1908–1972) — Donk
- Barthélemy Charles Joseph DumortierBarthélemy Charles Joseph DumortierBarthélemy Charles Joseph, Baron Dumortier was a Belgian politician and botanist. Some consider him to be the true discoverer of cell division, although he is rarely credited as such.-Works:...
(1797–1878) — Dumort.
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- Franklin Sumner EarleFranklin Sumner EarleFranklin Sumner Earle was an American mycologist. He was the first mycologist to work at the New York Botanical Garden, and was the author of The Genera of North American Gill Fungi .-References:...
(1856–1929) — Earle - Finn-Egil EckbladFinn-Egil EckbladFinn-Egil Eckblad was a Norwegian mycologist.He took the Dr.philos. degree in 1968, was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1971 and as a professor at the University of Oslo in 1979. He retired in 1990....
(1923–2000) — Eckblad - Christian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...
(1795–1876) — Ehrenb. - Jakob Friedrich EhrhartJakob Friedrich EhrhartJakob Friedrich Ehrhart was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780–1793...
(1742–1795) — Ehrh. - Job Bicknell EllisJob Bicknell EllisJob Bicknell Ellis was a pioneering North American mycologist known for his study of the Ascomycetes, especially the grouping of fungi called the Pyrenomycetes . Born and raised in New York, he worked as a teacher and farmer before developing an interest in mycology...
(1829–1905) — Ellis - Stephan Ladislaus EndlicherStephan Ladislaus EndlicherStephan Ladislaus Endlicher was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. He was born in Pressburg and died in Vienna....
(1804–1849) — Endl. - George EngelmannGeorge EngelmannGeorge Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly-known; he was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico.-Origins:George Engelmann was born in Frankfurt...
(1809–1884) — Engelm. - Constantin von EttingshausenConstantin von EttingshausenConstantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen was an Austrian geologist and botanist....
(1826–1897) — Ettingsh. - Rev. W.L.W. EyreWilliam Leigh Williamson EyreWilliam Leigh Williamson Eyre was an English mycologist and naturalist.-Background and education:W.L.W. Eyre was born in Padbury, Buckinghamshire. He was educated for the merchant navy and worked as a seaman until his religious convictions led him to enter Lichfield Theological College to study...
(1841–1914) — Eyre
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- Charles E. FairmanCharles E. Fairmanthumb|right|Charles E. Fairman at about age 60Charles E. Fairman was an American physician who published in the field of mycology. He was for many years the health officer of Yates, New York, and on the staff of the Medina Memorial Hospital...
(1856–1934) — Fairm. - William Gilson FarlowWilliam Gilson FarlowWilliam Gilson Farlow was an American botanist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard , where, after several years of European study, he became adjunct professor of botany in 1874 and professor of cryptogamic botany in 1879.In 1899 he was president of the American Society of...
(1844–1919) — Farl. - Victor FayodVictor FayodVictor Fayod was a Swiss mycologist. He is credited with the first description of the mushroom Cystoderma amianthinum. He studied in Lausanne and Zurich. Fayod first worked with Heinrich Anton de Bary in Strasbourg from 1881 to 1882, then as a tutor. He also assisted French bacteriologist André...
(1860–1900) — Fayod - John FinchamJohn FinchamJohn Robert Stanley Fincham FRS FRSE was a noted British geneticist who made important contributions to biochemical genetics and microbial genetics. Perhaps most notably, he obtained the first direct evidence for the "one gene-one enzyme" hypothesis...
(1926–2005) — - David W. FischerDavid W. FischerDavid W. Fischer is an American mycologist and the coauthor of several books on mushrooms, including and . David lives in upstate New York and maintains a large Web site at .- Further reading :* ISBN 0-292-72080-0* ISBN 0-8156-0388-6...
(1959–) — - Eduard FischerEduard FischerMajor GeneralDr. h. c. Eduard von Fischer, 1862 - 1935,Knight of the Maria Theresa Order, was a Jewish colonel commanding the Austrian gendarmerie in Bukovina....
(1861–1939) — E.Fisch. - Julius von FlotowJulius von FlotowJulius von Flotow; full name- Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Gustav Georg Adam Ernst Friedrich von Flotow was a German military officer and lichenologist who was born in the village of Pitzerwitz in the region of Neumark.Due to a serious war-related injury, Flotow took an early retirement from...
(1788–1856) — Flot. - Georg ForsterGeorg ForsterJohann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...
(1754–1794) — G.Forst. - Elias Magnus FriesElias Magnus Fries-External links:*, Authors of fungal names, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming.*...
(1794–1878) — Fr. - Charles Christopher FrostCharles Christopher FrostCharles Christopher Frost was an American botanist. He described several species of fungi from the New England area of the United States. In one paper, Frost described 22 new species of boletes, and he was later credited with the discovery of three additional species. His personal herbarium of...
(1805–1880) — Frost - Bruce A. FuhrerBruce A. FuhrerBruce Alexander Fuhrer is an Australian mycologist. He was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1989 and is a Life Member of the Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. He has written many books on Australian fungi, including a Comprehensive Field Guide to Australian Fungi. He worked for 25...
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- Joseph GaertnerJoseph GaertnerJoseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ....
(1732–1791) — Gaertn. - Richard V. Gaines
- Charles Gaudichaud-BeaupréCharles Gaudichaud-BeaupréCharles Gaudichaud-Beaupré was a French botanist.He was born in Angoulême, the son of J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology at Cognac and Angoulême. He also studied chemistry and herbology.His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from...
(1789–1854) — Gaudich. - Léon Gaston Genevier (1830–1880) — Genev.
- Ewald Gerhardt — Ew.Gerhardt
- Johann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
(1748–1804) — J.F.Gmel. - Samuel Frederick GraySamuel Frederick GraySamuel Frederick Gray was a British botanist, mycologist, and pharmacologist. He was the father of the zoologists John Edward Gray and George Robert Gray.-Background:...
(1766–1828) — Gray - David GrimaldiDavid GrimaldiDavid A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...
— Grimaldi - Johan Ernst GunnerusJohan Ernst GunnerusJohan Ernst Gunnerus was a Norwegian bishop and botanist. Gunnerus was born at Christiania. He was bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1758 until his death and also a professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen....
(1718–1773) — Gunnerus - Gastón GuzmánGastón GuzmánGastón Guzmán is a Mexican mycologist and anthropologist. He is considered the world's foremost authority on the genus Psilocybe.He was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, in 1932....
— (1932– ) — Guzman - Helen Gwynne-VaughanHelen Gwynne-VaughanDame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE , née Fraser, was a prominent British botanist and mycologist....
(1879–1967) — Gwynne-Vaughan
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- Emil Christian HansenEmil Christian HansenEmil Christian Hansen was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.Born in Ribe, he financed his education by writing novels and he was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi....
(1842–1909) — E.C.Hansen - Kanesuke HaraKanesuke Harawas a Japanese botanist and mycologist.-Publications:* Miyake, I.; Hara, K. 1910. Fungi on Japanese bamboos. Botanical Magazine Tokyo 24: -, -* Shirai, M.; Hara, K. 1911. Some new parasitic fungi of Japan. Bot.Mag.Tokyo 25: 69-73...
(1885–1962) — Hara - H. W. HarknessH. W. HarknessHarvey Willson “H.W.” Harkness was an American mycologist and natural historian best known for his early descriptions of California fungal species. Born and raised in Massachusetts and trained as a physician, Harkness came to California during the Gold Rush in 1849...
(1821–1901) — Harkn. - David Leslie HawksworthDavid Leslie HawksworthDavid Leslie Hawksworth is a British mycologist and lichenologist currently with a professorship in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid, Spain and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Museum in London. In 2002, he was honoured with an Acharius Medal by the International...
(1946– ) — D.Hawksw. - Paul Christoph HenningsPaul Christoph HenningsPaul Christoph Hennings was a German mycologist and herbarium curator. He discovered the study of cryptogams and mushrooms as a volunteer at the botanical garden. Although circumstances initially prevented him to study in that area, he later returned to natural sciences and eventually rose to a...
(1841–1908) — Henn. - Lexemuel Ray HeslerLexemuel Ray Hesler-External links:* Finding Aid for the Lexemuel Ray Hesler Collection, 1899-1982...
(1888–1977) — Hesler - David S. HibbettDavid S. HibbettDavid Hibbett is an associate professor in biology at Clark University. He is considered one of today's leading researchers "in the analysis of fungal relationships through DNA analysis." At Clark he concentrates his lab work in evolutionary biology and ecology of Fungi.He spent 1991 as a Science...
— Hibbett - Franz Xaver Rudolf von HöhnelFranz Xaver Rudolf von HöhnelFranz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel was an Austrian bryologist, mycologist, and algologist. He obtained his PhD in Strasbourg in 1877, and was a professor of botany in the Vienna University of Technology from 1884 to 1920...
(1852–1920) — Höhn. - Theodor HolmskjoldJohan Theodor HolmskjoldJohan Theodor Holmskiold was a Danish botanist, courtier and administrator.-Early life and career:Johan Theodor was born 14 June 1731 in Nyborg on the Danish island of Funen as the oldest of eight children to Nicolai Holm and Cathrine Lucie née v. Lengerchen...
(1731–1793) — Holmsk. - Joseph Dalton HookerJoseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
(1817–1911) — Hook.f. - John W. Hotson (1870 – ?) — Hotson
- Anna Maria HusseyAnna Maria HusseyAnna Maria Hussey was a British mycologist, writer, and illustrator.-Family and background:Anna Maria Reed was born in Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire, one of seven children of Rev. John Theodore Archibald Reed, rector of Leckhampstead, and Anna Maria Dayrell. In 1831 she married Rev...
(ca. 1820–1877) — Hussey
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- Emil J. Imbach (1897–1970) — Imbach
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- Nikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph von JacquinNikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....
(1727–1817) — Jacq. - Abraham Z. JoffeAbraham Z. JoffeAbraham Z. Joffe was Professor of Mycology and Mycotoxicology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Dr. Joffe's professional interests were centered primarily in toxigenic fungi associated with production of mycotoxins ; ecology and environmental factors favoring formation and distribution of...
(1909–2000) — Joffe - Fred Reuel Jones (1884–1956) — F.R.Jones
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- Károly KalchbrennerKároly KalchbrennerKároly Kalchbrenner was a Hungarian mycologist. He trained in theology early in life and became a priest in Spišské Vlachy in Northeastern Slovakia. His contributions include the publishing of 60 papers and description of more than 400 fungi from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America...
(1807–1886) — Kalchbr. - Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann KarstenGustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald....
(1817–1908) — H.Karst. - Petter Adolf KarstenPetter Adolf KarstenPetter Adolf Karsten was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology"....
(1834–1917) — P.Karst - Calvin Henry Kauffman (1869–1931) — Kauffman
- Bryce KendrickBryce KendrickBryce Kendrick B.Sc. University of Liverpool 1955, Ph.D. University of Liverpool 1958, D.Sc. University of Liverpool 1980, F.R.S.C. Bryce Kendrick was born in Liverpool England. After completing his Ph.D. he took an assignment as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the National Research Council in Ottawa...
(1933–) — W.B.Kendr. - František KotlabaFrantišek KotlabaFrantišek Kotlaba is a Czech botanist and mycologist. His author abbreviation is Kotl. -Scientific career:...
(1927– ) — Kotl. - Hanns KreiselHanns KreiselHanns Kreisel is a German mycologist and professor emeritus.Kreisel was a professor at the University of Greifswald. His field is the classification of fungi, where he has studied this group of organisms not only in Germany but in almost all continents, as in Brazil, Seychelles, Vietnam, Cuba and...
(1931– ) — Kreisel - Julius Vincenz von KrombholzJulius Vincenz von KrombholzJulius Vincenz von Krombholz was a physician and mycologist born in Oberpolitz , northern Bohemia....
(1782–1843) — Krombh. - Julius Gotthelf Kühn (1825–1910) — J.G.Kühn
- Robert KühnerRobert KühnerRobert Kühner, born Paris 15 March 1903, died Lyon 27 February 1996, was a French mycologist most notable for reviewing many agaric genera.-References:...
(1903–1996) — Kühner - Paul KummerPaul KummerPaul Kummer was a priest, teacher, and scientist in Zerbst, Germany, known chiefly for his contribution to mycological nomenclature. Earlier classification of agarics by pioneering fungal taxonomist Elias Magnus Fries designated only a very small number of genera, with most species falling into...
(1834–1912) — P.Kumm. - Otto KuntzeOtto KuntzeOtto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...
(1843–1907) — Kuntze
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- Jakob Emanuel LangeJakob Emanuel LangeJakob Emanuel Lange , was a Danish mycologist who studied the systematics of gilled mushrooms.His most well-known work is Flora Agaricina Danica, a five-volume plate work on the Agaricales of Denmark....
— J.E.Lange - Charles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius , seigneur de Watènes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists....
(1526–1609) — Clus. - Gustav LindauGustav LindauGustav Lindau , was a German mycologist and botanist.- Biography :Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener . He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in1888...
(1866–1923) — Lindau - Johann Heinrich Friedrich LinkJohann Heinrich Friedrich LinkJohann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'...
(1767–1850) — Link - Carolus LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
(1707–1778) — L. - William Henry Long (1867–1947) — Long
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- Rudolph Arnold Maas GeesteranusRudolph Arnold Maas GeesteranusRudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus, born 20 January 1911 in The Hague, died May 18 2003 in Oegstgeest, was a Dutch mycologist.-References:...
(1911–2003) — Maas Geest. - Charles McIlvaine (1840–1909) — McIlv.
- René Charles Joseph Ernest MaireRené MaireRené Charles Joseph Ernest Maire was a French botanist and mycologist. His major work was the Flore de l'Afrique du Nord in 16 volumes published posthumously in 1953. He collected plants from Algeria, Morocco, France, and Mali for the herbarium of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium.- Biography...
(1878–1949) — Maire - George W. Martin (1886–1971) — G.W.Martin
- George Edward MasseeGeorge Edward MasseeGeorge Edward Massee was an English mycologist, plant pathologist, and botanist.-Background and education:George Massee was born in Scampston, East Yorkshire, the son of a farmer...
(1850–1917) — Massee - John MacounJohn MacounJohn Macoun was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist.- Early life :Macoun was born in Magheralin, County Down, Ireland in 1831, the third child of James Macoun and Anne Jane Nevin. In 1850 the worsening economic situation in Ireland led his family to emigrate to Canada, where he settled in Seymour...
(1831–1920) — Macoun - Nestor Léon MarchandNestor Léon MarchandNestor Léon Marchand was a French medical doctor, pharmacist, and botanist who studied the flowering plant family the Anacardiaceae and mycology. He was mayor of Thiais, France from 1881 to 1887.-References:...
(1833–1911) — Marchand - Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
(1794–1868) — Mart. - Patrick Brandon Matheny (1969– ) — Matheny
- Tom MayTom May (mycologist)Thomas William May is a mycologist and the curator of the fungal collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria where he specialises in the taxonomy and ecology of Australian macrofungi. He is most notable for the comprehensive bibliographical lists of all Australian fungi published thus far;...
— T.W.May - Konstantin MereschkowskiKonstantin MereschkowskiKonstantin Mereschcowsky was a prominent Russian biologist, botanist and advocate of eugenics active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis - that larger, more complex cells evolved from the symbiotic relationship between less complex ones...
(1855–1921) — Mereschk. - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer (1782–1856) — G.Mey
- Orson K. Miller, Jr.Orson K. Miller, Jr.Orson Knapp Miller, Jr., born December 19, 1930, died June 9, 2006, is an American mycologist. He has published numerous papers in mycology and is responsible for the naming of many taxa, as well as being one of the authors erecting the genus Chroogomphus:...
(1930–2006) — O.K.Mill. - Kingo Miyabe (1860–1951) — Miyabe
- Pierre Marie Arthur MoreletPierre Marie Arthur MoreletPierre Marie Arthur Morelet was a French naturalist, born in Lays, Doubs. He was a member of the Commission to Algeria, primarily as a natural artist, drawing any natural findings....
(1809–1892) — - Andrew Price MorganAndrew Price MorganAndrew Price Morgan was an American botanist. He investigated the flora of the Miami Valley in Ohio. While his interest included flowering plants, as noted by his Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio, his special interest was in fungi. Morgan worked as a teacher in Dayton...
(1836–1907) — Morgan - Meinhard Moser (1924–2002) — M.M.Moser
- Ferdinand von MuellerFerdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
(1825–1896) — F.Muell. - William Alphonso Murrill (1869–1957) — Murrill
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- Karl Wilhelm von NägeliKarl Wilhelm von NägeliKarl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination, but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics.-Birth and education:...
(1817–1891) — Nägeli - Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von EsenbeckChristian Gottfried Daniel Nees von EsenbeckChristian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
(1776–1858) — Nees - Gustav Niessl von MayendorfGustav Niessl von MayendorfGustav Niessl von Mayendorf , was an Austrian astronomer and mycologist....
(1839–1919) — Niessl - Frank NewhookFrank NewhookProfessor Francis John Newhook OBE was the head of the School of Plant Pathology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was the first plant pathologist at the university, from 1966 as an Associate Professor, and from 1969 a personal chair...
- Machiel Noordeloos (1949– ) — Noordel.
- William NylanderWilliam NylanderWilliam Nylander was a Finnish botanist and entomologist.Nylander taught at the University of Helsinki for a number of years before later moving to Paris, where he was to live until his death in 1899....
(1822–1899) — Nyl.
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- P. D. Orton (1916–2005) — P.D.Orton
- Casper van Overeem (1893–1927) — Overeem
- Lee Oras Overholts (1890–1946) — Overh.
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- Frederick Parker-RhodesFrederick Parker-RhodesFrederick Parker-Rhodes was an English linguist, plant pathologist, computer scientist, mathematician, mystic, and mycologist.-Background & education:...
(1914–1987) — Park.-Rhodes - A.A. PearsonA.A. PearsonArthur Anselm Pearson was an English mycologist.- Background and career :Arthur Anselm Pearson was born in London, but educated in Belgium. After leaving school he worked as a seaman before joining the firm of British Belting & Asbestos Ltd in Yorkshire, where he spent the rest of his working...
(1874–1954) — A.Pearson - Charles Horton PeckCharles Horton PeckCharles Horton Peck, born March 30, 1833 in Sand Lake, New York, died 1917 in Albany, New York, was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries...
(1833–1917) — Peck - Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836) — Pers.
- Thomas Petch (1870–1948) — Petch
- Ronald H. Petersen (1934– ) — R.H.Petersen
- Charles Bagge Plowright (1849-1910) — Plowr.
- Eduard Friedrich PoeppigEduard Friedrich PoeppigEduard Friedrich Poeppig was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer.-Biography:He was born in Plauen, Saxony. He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Leipzig, graduating with a medical degree. On graduation, the rector of the university gave him a botanical mission to North...
(1791–1868) — Poepp. - Illtyd Buller Pole-EvansIlltyd Buller Pole-EvansIlltyd Buller Pole-Evans CMG was a Welsh-born South African botanist.-Biography:Pole-Evans was born in Llanmaes near Cardiff, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Daniel Evans and Caroline Jane Pole...
(1879–1968) — Pole-Evans - Patricio Ponce de LeónPatricio Ponce de LeónPatricio Ponce de León was a Cuban mycologist. He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana, and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the family Geastraceae, the earthstar fungi...
(1919–2010) — P.Ponce de León - Karel PreslKarel PreslKarel Bořivoj Presl was a Bohemian botanist.He lived all his life in Prague, and was a professor at the University of Prague. He made an expedition to Sicily in 1817, and published a Flora bohemica in 1820....
(1794–1852) — C.Presl. - Nathanael PringsheimNathanael PringsheimNathanael Pringsheim was a German botanist.-Biography:Nathanael Pringsheim was born at Landsberg, Prussian Silesia, and studied at the universities of Breslau, Leipzig, and Berlin successively...
(1823–1894) — Pringsh.
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- Lucien QuéletLucien Quéletthumb|Lucien QuéletLucien Quélet was a French mycologist and naturalist who discovered several species and was the founder of the Société mycologique de France, a society devoted to mycological studies....
(1832–1899) — Quél. - Edwin John Queskett (1808–1847) — E.J.Quekett
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- Gottlob Ludwig RabenhorstGottlob Ludwig RabenhorstGottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst was a German botanist. He was a student in Berlin and Belzig from 1822 to 1830, a pharmacist in Luckau until 1840, and received his doctorate in Jena in 1841. Rabenhorst edited the scientific journal Hedwigia from 1852 to 1878....
(1806–1881) — Rabenh. - Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840) — Raf.
- Jörg H. Raithelhuber — Raithelh.
- John RamsbottomJohn Ramsbottom (mycologist)John Ramsbottom was a British mycologist.He was Keeper of Botany at the British Museum . He served as general secretary and twice as president of the British Mycological Society, and was long editor of its Transactions. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1937 to 1940 and was awarded...
(1885–1974) — Ramsb. - Carleton ReaCarleton ReaCarleton Rea was an English mycologist, botanist, and naturalist.-Background and education:Carleton Rea was born in Worcester, the son of the City Coroner. He was educated at The King's School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied law...
(1861–1946) — Rea - Scott Redhead (1950-) - Redhead
- Heinrich RehmHeinrich RehmHeinrich Simon Ludwig Friedrich Felix Rehm was a German mycologist and lichenologist.-Publications:*Rehm, H. 1874. Ascomyceten Fasc. 5: 201-250*----. 1875. Ascomyceten 6: 251-300...
(1828–1916) — Rehm - Ludwig ReichenbachLudwig ReichenbachHeinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach was a German botanist and ornithologist.He was the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach, the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary. He was the father of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, equally a botanist and an eminent orchid...
(1793–1879) — Rchb. - Derek ReidDerek ReidDerek Agutter Reid was an English mycologist.-Background and education:Reid was born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, the son of a picture-framer. He was educated at Cedars School and the University of Hull, where he studied geology and botany...
(1927–2006) — D.A.Reid - Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
(1855–1956) — Ridl. - Henri RomagnesiHenri RomagnesiHenri Charles Louis Romagnesi was a French mycologist who was notable for a thorough review and monograph of the agaric genus Entoloma , as well as extensive work on the large genus Russula, of which he described several new species.-References:...
(1912–1999) — Romagn. - Emil RostrupEmil RostrupFrederik Georg Emil Rostrup was a Danish botanist, mycologist and plant pathologist.From 1858, Emil Rostrup was a teacher at the paedagogical college Skårup Seminarium in then new subject natural history. He educated to-be school teachers for 25 years...
(1831–1907) — Rostr. - Georg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard Rumphius or originally Rumpf was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense....
(1628–1702) — Rumph.
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- Pier Andrea SaccardoPier Andrea SaccardoPier Andrea Saccardo was an Italian botanist and mycologist.- Life :...
(1845–1920) — Sacc. - Augustin Saint-HilaireAugustin Saint-HilaireAugustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
(1799–1853) — A.St.-Hil. - Jacob Christian SchäfferJacob Christian SchäfferJakob or Jacob Christian Gottlieb Schäffer or Schäffern was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor.-Biography:...
(1718–1790) — Schaeff. - Julius SchäfferJulius SchäfferJulius Schäffer was a German mycologist. His contributions include studies on the Agaricales , especially the genus Russula, about which he wrote a monograph in 1933. Later, he revised the genus in the series Die Pilze Mitteleuropas ; his notes were published posthumously by his wife Liesel in...
(1882–1944) — Jul.Schaeff. - Diederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich Franz Leonhard von SchlechtendalDiederich von Schlechtendal was a German botanist born in Xanten. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1833 until his death in 1866, and Editor of the botanical journal Linnaea.His most important work was in...
(1794–1866) — Schltdl. - Joseph SchröterJoseph SchröterJoseph Schröter was a noted German mycologist, doctor and scientist. During his lifetime, he wrote several books and texts, and discovered and described many species of flora and fungi...
(1837–1894) — J.Schröt. - Franz Paula von SchrankFranz Paula von SchrankFranz von Paula Schrank was a German botanist and entomologist.Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.Shrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops...
(1747–1835) — Schrank - Stephan Schulzer von MüggenburgStephan Schulzer von MüggenburgStephan Schulzer von Müggenburg was a Hungarian – Croatian army officer and mycologist. His first name is variably spelled Stefan Stjepan or István....
(1802–1892) — Schulzer - Lewis David von SchweinitzLewis David von SchweinitzLewis David de Schweinitz was a German-American botanist and mycologist. He is considered by some the "Father of North American Mycology", but also made significant contributions to botany.-Education:...
(1780–1834) — Schwein. - Giovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist.-Biography:...
(1723–1788) — Scop. - Fred Jay SeaverFred Jay SeaverFred Jay Seaver was an American mycologist. He worked at the New York Botanical Garden for 40 years, initially as the Director of Laboratories , then as the Curator , and finally as Head Curator . He was also an editor of the journal Mycologia between 1909 and 1947.- References :...
(1877–1970) — Seaver - Louis SecretanLouis SecretanLouis Secretan , was a Swiss lawyer and mycologist. He published Mycologie Suisse in 1833, though the names are not regarded as valid unless republished by other authors.-References:...
(1758–1839) — Secr. - Cornelius Lott ShearCornelius Lott ShearCornelius Lott Shear was an American mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1908 he created the American Phytopathological Society. He was the first to describe the grass Bromus arizonicus.-References:...
(1865–1956) — Shear - John SibthorpJohn SibthorpJohn Sibthorp was an English botanist.He was born in Oxford, the youngest son of Dr Humphry Sibthorp , who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at the University of Oxford....
(1758–1796) — Sibth. - Rolf SingerRolf SingerRolf Singer was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms in the 20th century....
(1906–1994) — Singer - Alexander Hanchett Smith (1904–1986) — A.H.Sm.
- Annie Lorrain SmithAnnie Lorrain SmithAnnie Lorrain Smith was a British lichenologist whose Lichens was an essential textbook for several decades...
(1854–1937) — A.L.Sm. - James Edward SmithJames Edward SmithSir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
(1759–1828) — Sm. - Worthington G. SmithWorthington George SmithWorthington George Smith was an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, and mycologist.-Background and career:...
(1835–1917) — W.G.Sm. - Miroslav SmotlachaMiroslav SmotlachaMiroslav Smotlacha was a Czech mycologist He was born in Vinohrady and attended the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague.-Mycology:...
(1920–2007) — Smotl. - Walter Henry Snell (1889–1980) — Snell
- Olav Johan SoppOlav Johan SoppOlav Johan Sopp was a Norwegian mycologist. He was a pioneer of Norwegian and international mycological research. He was the first to suggest classifying fungi as belonging to neither plantae nor animalia, but to a third kingdom...
1860–1931) — Sopp - James SowerbyJames SowerbyJames Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates...
(1757–1822) — Sowerby - Carlos Luigi SpegazziniCarlos Luigi SpegazziniCarlos Luis Spegazzini, or Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, was an Italian-Argentinian botanist and mycologist. Spegazzini published about 100 scientific papers on vascular plants, describing around 1000 new taxa...
(1858–1926) — Speg. - Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833) — Spreng.
- Nicolay Konstantinovich Sredinsky (1843–1908) Sred.
- Elvin C. StakmanElvin C. Stakman-External links:...
(1885–1979) — Stakman. - Paul StametsPaul StametsPaul E. Stamets is an American mycologist, author, and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal mushrooms.- Research and advocacy :...
(1955–) — Stamets - Greta Stevenson (1911–1990) — G.Stev.
- Daniel E. Stuntz (1909–1983) — D.E.Stuntz
- Richard C. SummerbellRichard SummerbellRichard C. Summerbell is a Canadian mycologist, author and award-winning songwriter. He was editor in chief of an international scientific journal in mycology from 2000 to 2004...
(1956–) — Summerb. - David Ross Sumstine (1870–1965) — Sumst.
- Hans SydowHans SydowHans Sydow was a German mycologist, son of Paul Sydow .-External links:*...
(1879–1946) — Syd. - Paul SydowPaul SydowPaul Sydow was a German mycologist and lichenologist, father of Hans Sydow .-Works:* Gustav Lindau and Paul Sydow Thesaurus literaturae mycologicae et lichenologicae. -External links:*...
(1851–1925) — P.Syd.
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- Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839–1914) — Tiegh.
- Roland ThaxterRoland ThaxterRoland Thaxter , the son of Celia Thaxter and Levi Thaxter, was an American mycologist. He was known for his work on the fungal grouping known as the Laboulbeniales, and published 21 papers on the subject. Thaxter served as editor of the journal Annals of Botany from 1907 to 1932...
(1858–1932) — Thaxt. - Harry D. ThiersHarry D. ThiersHarry Delbert Thiers, born January 22, 1919 in Fort McKavett, Texas, died August 8, 2000 in Ohio, was an American mycologist who studied and named a great many fungi of native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco State University for many years, and a...
(1919–2000) — Thiers - Carl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....
(1743–1828) — Thunb. - Phillippe Édouard Léon van TieghemPhillippe Édouard Léon van TieghemPhilippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem was a French botanist who was a native of Baillleul in the département of Nord....
(1839–1914) — Tiegh. - John Torrey (1796–1873) — Torr.
- Joseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.- Biography :...
(1656–1708) — Tourn. - Edward TuckermanEdward TuckermanEdward Tuckerman was an American botanist and professor who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. He was a founding member of the Natural History Society of Boston and most of his career was spent at Amherst College...
(1817–1886) — Tuck. - Charles TulasneCharles TulasneCharles Tulasne was a French physician and mycologist who was born in Langeais in the département of Indre-et-Loire. He received his medical doctorate in 1840 and practiced medicine in Paris until 1854. Afterwards he worked with his older brother Louis René Tulasne in the field of mycology...
(1816–1884) — C.Tul. - Louis René TulasneLouis René TulasneLouis René Tulasne, aka Edmond Tulasne was a French botanist and mycologist who was born in Azay-le-Rideau. He originally studied law at Poitiers, but his interest later turned to botany. As a young man he accompanied botanist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire to South America to study the flora of Brazil...
(1815–1885) — Tul.
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- Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich (1857–1952) — Ulbr.
- Lucien Marcus UnderwoodLucien Marcus UnderwoodLucien Marcus Underwood was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.-Biography:He was born in New Woodstock, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University...
(1853–1907) — Underw. - Zdeněk Urban (1923–2000) — Z.Urb.
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- Martin VahlMartin VahlMartin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II...
(1749–1804) — Vahl. - Sébastien VaillantSébastien VaillantSébastien Vaillant was a French botanist.Vaillant was born at Vigny, Val d'Oise. He studied medicine at Pontoise, and then moved to Paris to practice as a surgeon, where he studied botany at the Jardin des Plantes under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.Vaillant was appointed to the staff of the Jardin...
(1669–1722) — Vaill. - Josef Velenovský (1858–1949) — Velen.
- Rytas Vilgalys (1958– ) — Vilgalys
- Thomas Volk — T.J.Volk
- Charles Von Holstein (1784–1851)
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- Göran WahlenbergGöran WahlenbergGeorg Wahlenberg was a Swedish naturalist. He was born in Kroppa, Värmland County.Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter...
(1780–1851) — Wahlenb. - Elsie Maud WakefieldElsie Maud WakefieldElsie Maud Wakefield was an English mycologist and plant pathologist.-Background and education:Miss Wakefield was born in Birmingham, the daughter of a science teacher...
(1886–1972) — Wakef. - Nathaniel WallichNathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...
(1786–1854) — Wall. - Eugenius WarmingEugenius WarmingJohannes Eugenius Bülow Warming , known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology...
(1841–1924) — Warm. - Roy Watling (1938– ) — Watling
- Christian Ehrenfried WeigelChristian Ehrenfried WeigelChristian Ehrenfried Weigel was a German scientist and, beginning in 1774, a professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Mineralogy at the University of Greifswald....
(1748–1831) — Weigel - Friedrich WelwitschFriedrich WelwitschFriedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola discovered the plant Welwitschia mirabilis...
(1806–1872) — Welw. - Carl Ludwig WilldenowCarl Ludwig WilldenowCarl Ludwig Willdenow was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants...
(1765–1812) — Willd. - William WitheringWilliam WitheringWilliam Withering was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.-Introduction:...
(1741–1799) — With. - Alec WoodAlec Wood (mycologist)Alec E. Wood is a mycologist affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia who has published major studies, describing a large number new species, in the genera Galerina and Amanita...
(1933– ) — A.E.Wood - John Medley WoodJohn Medley WoodJohn Medley Wood 1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 26 August 1915 Durban, was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in Natal and for his...
(1827–1915) — J.M.Wood - Jorge Eduardo WrightJorge Eduardo WrightJorge Eduardo Wright was an Argentinian mycologist. Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1949. He was awarded a Latin American Guggenheim Fellowship and studied under Alexander H. Smith at the University of Michigan, under whom he received his Master of Science...
(1922–2005) — J.E.Wright - Franz Xavier von Wulfen (1728–1805) — Wulfen
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- Anthony M. YoungAnthony M. YoungAnthony M. Young is an Australian mycologist based in Queensland, affiliated with the University of Queensland. He has published several books on fungi as well as a monograph on Australian Hygrophoraceae, resulting from his research on Hygrocybe and related genera...
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- Alexander ZahlbrucknerAlexander ZahlbrucknerAlexander Zahlbruckner was an Austrian botanist who specialized in the study of lichens -Works:Catalogus lichenum universalis. -Sources:...
(1860–1939) — Zahlbr. - Sanford Myron ZellerSanford Myron ZellerSanford Myron Zeller was an American mycologist. Born in Coldwater, Michigan, Zeller was educated at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, then Greenville College in Illinois, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1909. He earned his doctorate in botany in 1917 at Washington University...
(1885–1948) — Zeller