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Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth

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Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 1950

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

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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.[1]

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.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Ainsw. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

Awards

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Bibliography

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(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)[4]
  • The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales), (written with Kathleen Sampson, 1950),[5]
  • Medical mycology; an introduction to its problems by (1952),[6]
  • The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise. Vols. 1–5. (1965),[7]
  • Fungal Diseases of Animals (Review series of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health, written with P.K.C. Austwick, 1973),[8]
  • Introduction to the History of Mycology (1976),[9]
  • Nomenclature of fungi pathogenic to man and animals (1977),[10]
  • Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology (1981),[11]
  • Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology (1986),[12]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Webster J. (1999). "Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 1905–1998". Mycologia. 91 (4): 714–719. doi:10.1080/00275514.1999.12061073. JSTOR 3761260.
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Ainsw.
  4. ^ Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi ( ), p. 1, at Google Books
  5. ^ Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough; Sampson, Kathleen (1950). "The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales)". Commonwealth Mycological Institute. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Medical mycology; an introduction to its problems | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  7. ^ Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1965). The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise. Academic Press. ISBN 9780120456017. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  8. ^ Ainsworth, G.C.; Austwick, P.K.C. (January 1973). Fungal diseases of animals, (Review series of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health). CABI. ISBN 978-0-85198-268-7. Retrieved 4 December 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  9. ^ Ainsworth, G. C. (21 October 1976). Introduction to the History of Mycology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521210133. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  10. ^ "Nomenclature of fungi pathogenic to man and animals | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  11. ^ Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521230322. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  12. ^ Ainsworth, G. C. (1986). Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521307154. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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