What is studied by a 'Mycologist'?
John Webster (mycologist) John Webster (mycologist) John Webster (25 May 1925 – 27 December 2014) was an internationally renowned mycologist, Head of Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter in England, and twice President of the British Mycological Society. He is recognised for determining the physiological mechanism underpinning fungal spore release, though is probably best known by students of mycology for his influential textbook, "Introduction to Fungi". Born in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, John Webster, along with his twin brother, was the youngest of four children. He studied for his degree at the University of Nottingham between 1943 and 1945. After gaining a first
Eduard Fischer (mycologist) and the mycologist Ernst Albert Gäumann. Fischer became a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1932. Eduard Fischer (mycologist) Eduard Fischer (16 June 1861 – 18 November 1939) was a Swiss botanist and mycologist. Fischer was the son of botanist Ludwig Fischer, a professor and director of the state botanic garden. Fischer studied at the University of Bern and graduated in 1883 with mushroom researcher Heinrich Anton de Bary in Strasbourg, with whom he studied Gasteromycetes. During further studies in Berlin during 1884–1885, he worked with Simon Schwendener (1829–1919), August Wilhelm Eichler (1839–1887) and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson