Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann

male, 103 years old
LSD-25, Bicycle Day, lsd, psilocybin, squill, fungus
Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann au...

Akira Endo

male, 76 years old
Biochemist, Japan Prize, Japan Prize laureate, climatologist, cholesterol, fungus
Dr Akira Endo (born 14 November 1933) is a Japanese biochemist whose work on fungi and cholesterol led to the development of the highly successful...
Agostino Bassi

Agostino Bassi

male, deceased (1856)
bubonic plague, Entomologist, Italian, lombardy, silkworm, plague…fungus
Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi, (born September 25, 1773, near Lodi, Lombardy; died February 8, 1856, in Lodi) was an Italian...

Patrick J. Keeling

male
professor, biology, University of British Columbia - Vancouver, University of British Columbia, botany, fungus
Patrick J. Keeling is a mycologist in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia. He is notable for his publications on fungi...
David Gruby

David Gruby

male, deceased (1898)
Mycologist, Naturalist, hungarian, physician, microbiologist, chloroform…fungus
David Gruby was an Hungarian physician who was born in the village of Kis-Kér (now Bačko Dobro Polje, Serbia). He received his doctorate in Vi...
Otto Jirovec

Otto Jirovec

male
P. jiroveci, Pneumocystis jirovecii, protozoan, Pneumocystis carinii, Pneumocystis jiroveci, protozoology…fungus
Otto Jirovec (1907-1972) was a Czech professor of parasitology and protozoology. A significant fungus parasite of humans, "Pneumocystis jirovecii"...

Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet

male, deceased (1902)
French, University of Bordeaux, Mycologist, Botanist, strasbourg, bordeaux…fungus
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet was a French botanist and mycologist. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiberg and later became a...
Albert Francis Blakeslee

Albert Francis Blakeslee

male, deceased (1954)
Smith College faculty, University of Connecticut faculty, Harvard University alumni, Wesleyan University alumni, university of connecticut, Biologist…fungus
Albert Francis Blakeslee (9 November 1874-16 November 1954) was an American botanist. He is best known for his research on the poisonous jimsonweed...
William Gilson Farlow

William Gilson Farlow

male, deceased (1919)
Harvard University, University of Wisconsin, professor, Botanist, Harvard University alumni, Science writer…fungus
William Gilson Farlow (1844-1919) was an American botanist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard (A.B., 1866; M.D., 1870), where,...
Hampton Carson

Hampton Carson

male, deceased (2004)
University of Pennsylvania alumni, American, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Pennsylvania, geneticist, zoology…fungus
Hampton Lawrence Carson (November 5, 1914 - December 19, 2004) was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the chromosomes of new...