Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth Explained

Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (9 October 1905 in Birmingham  - 25 October 1998 in Derby) was a British mycologist and scientific historian. He was the older brother of Ruth Ainsworth.

Education and work

Ainsworth received his doctorate in Biology from the University of London 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 and Raffaele Ciferri circumscribed a genus of fungi (family Chaetothyriaceae) named Ainsworthia and named in Geoffrey Ainsworth's honour.^[1]

Awards

• 1980 Linnean Medal, shared with Roy Crowson

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)^[2]
• The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales), (written with Kathleen Sampson, 1950),^[3]
• Medical mycology; an introduction to its problems by (1952),^[4]
• The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise. Vols. 1–5. (1965),^[5]
• Fungal Diseases of Animals (Review series of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health, written with P.K.C. Austwick, 1973),^[6]
• Introduction to the History of Mycology (1976),^[7]
• Nomenclature of fungi pathogenic to man and animals (1977),^[8]
• Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology (1981),^[9]
• Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology (1986),^[10]

See also

• List of mycologists

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.
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3. Web site: Ainsworth . Geoffrey Clough . Sampson . Kathleen . The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales) . Commonwealth Mycological Institute . 4 December 2022 . en . 1950.
4. Web site: Medical mycology; an introduction to its problems WorldCat.org . www.worldcat.org . 4 December 2022 . en.
5. Book: Ainsworth . Geoffrey Clough . The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise . Academic Press . 4 December 2022 . en . 1965. 9780120456017 .
6. Book: Ainsworth . G.C. . Austwick . P.K.C. . Fungal diseases of animals, (Review series of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health) . Amazon . January 1973 . CABI . 978-0-85198-268-7 . 4 December 2022.
7. Book: Ainsworth . G. C. . Introduction to the History of Mycology . Cambridge University Press . 4 December 2022 . en . 21 October 1976. 9780521210133 .
8. Web site: Nomenclature of fungi pathogenic to man and animals WorldCat.org . www.worldcat.org . 4 December 2022 . en.
9. Book: Ainsworth . Geoffrey Clough . Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology . Cambridge University Press . 4 December 2022 . en . 1981. 9780521230322 .
10. Book: Ainsworth . G. C. . Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology . Cambridge University Press . 4 December 2022 . en . 1986. 9780521307154 .