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Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (9 October 1905 in
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (9 October 1905 in Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
– 25 October 1998 in Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gai ...
) was a British mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...
and scientific historian. He was the older brother of Ruth Ainsworth
Ruth Gallard Ainsworth (16 October 1908 – 16 May 1984) was a British writer, of over seventy children's books and numerous radio scripts.
Life
Ainsworth was born in Manchester, in 1908, the second child (and first daughter) of Methodist mini ...
.
Education and work
Ainsworth received his doctorate from theUniversity of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
in 1934. From the 1930s to 1960s, he studied and wrote on fungi including their medical uses. Later, he wrote on the history of the field with ''An Introduction to the History of Mycology'' (1976), ''An Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology'' (1981), and'' An Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology'' in 1986.
In 1962 botanists Augusto Chaves Batista Augusto Chaves Batista (15 June 1916 – 30 November 1967) was a Brazilian mycologist. He published more than 600 research papers, either alone or in collaboration with others. At the time of his death at the age of 51, Batista was the director of ...
and Raffaele Ciferri
Raffaele Ciferri (30 May 1897, Fermo – 12 February 1964, Pavia) was an Italian botanist, agriculturalist and mycologist.
He studied agricultural sciences at the University of Bologna. From 1925 to 1932, he was based in the Dominican Republic ...
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
a genus of fungi (family Chaetothyriaceae
The ''Chaetothyriaceae'' are a family of ascomycetous fungi within the order Chaetothyriales and within the class Eurotiomycetes. A recent (2012) molecular
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) named ''Ainsworthia
''Ainsworthia'' is a genus of fungi in the family Chaetothyriaceae.
The genus was circumscribed by Augusto Chaves Batista and Raffaele Ciferri in Sydowia Beih. vol.3 on page 4 in 1962.
The genus name of ''Ainsworthia'' is in honour of Geof ...
'' and named in Geoffrey Ainsworth's honour.
Awards
*1980Linnean Medal
The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...
, shared with Roy Crowson
Roy Albert Crowson (22 November 1914 in Hadlow, Kent – 13 May 1999) was an English biologist who specialised in the taxonomy of beetles.
He lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow from 1949. He collected beetles and the ...
Bibliography
(Date Order) * Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi (1st Edition 1943, 2nd 1945, 3rd 1950, 4th 1954, 5th 1961, 6th 1971, 7th 1983, 8th 1995, 9th 2001, 10th Edition 2008) * The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales), (written with Kathleen Sampson, 1950), * Medical mycology; an introduction to its problems by (1952), * The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise. Vols. 1–5. (1965), * Fungal Diseases of Animals (Review series of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health, written with P.K.C. Austwick, 1973), * Introduction to the History of Mycology (1976), * Nomenclature of fungi pathogenic to man and animals (1977), * Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology (1981), * Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology (1986),See also
*List of mycologists
This is a non-exhaustive list of mycologists, or scientists with a specialisation in mycology, with their author abbreviations. Because the study of lichens is traditionally considered a branch of mycology, lichenologists are included in this lis ...
References
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English botanists English mycologists 1905 births 1998 deaths Linnean Medallists Alumni of the University of London People from Birmingham, West Midlands 20th-century biologists 20th-century British botanists {{mycologist-stub