Cecil Terence Ingold
Cecil Terence Ingold (5 July 1905 – 31 May 2010) was "one of the most influential mycologists of the twentieth century".[1] He was president of the British Mycological Society where he organized the first international congress of mycologists. An entire class of aquatic fungi within the Pleosporales, the Ingoldian fungi,[2] were named after him,[3] although recent DNA studies are changing the scientific names.
Ingold attended Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where, in 1926, he received his bachelor's degree in botany, with emphasis on mycology. After a year at Imperial College, London, he returned to Queen's University for his doctorate in botany which he was awarded in 1930. His dissertation was on systems in plant sap that buffer against changes in pH. Ingold received a faculty appointment to the Department of Botany, at the University of Reading, where he taught botany. From 1944 he held a chair at Birkbeck College, University of London.[1]
In 1932, at the urging of Walter Buddin, Ingold joined the British Mycological Society.[3] In 1938 Ingold began his study of freshwater fungi and in 1942 he published his seminal work: "Aquatic hyphomycetes of decaying alder leaves".[4]
Ingold continued to work on fungi for thirty years after his retirement.[1] By 1985, at the age of 80, he had produced 174 scientific publications; and approximately 100 appeared after that date.
His daughter is Patsy Healey[5] and son is the noted anthropologist Tim Ingold.[6]
Contribution to Mycology
Terence Ingold is best known for his pioneering studies into the mechanism of spore discharge; his textbook The Biology of Fungi (which ran to five editions between 1961 and 1984), and for his discovery of an entirely new group of fungi - the aquatic hyphomycetes - of which more than 300 species are now recognised.[7]
Honours and Recognition
In 1996 Terence Ingold was awarded the De Bary Award by the International Mycological Association for "lifetime achievement in mycological research, particularly, contributions to our knowledge of fungal spore release and dispersal and the recognition of aquatic fungi as ecological specialists".[7]
In 1970 the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) was awarded to Ingold for his work in higher education, in both Africa and Jamaica, as well as the UK.[7]
Major works
- 1939. Spore discharge in land plants. Oxford University Press.
- 1971. Fungal spores: their liberation and dispersal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198541158
Eponymous taxa
- Ingoldia
- Ingoldiella
- Ingoldiomyces
- Acaromyces ingoldii
- Bensingtonia ingoldii
- Lindgomyces ingoldianus
- Lophiostoma ingoldianum
- Massarina ingoldiana
- Pseudocercophora ingoldii
Notes
- ^ a b c Money, Nicholas P. (2010). "Obituary: Cecil Terence Ingold (1905–2010)". Nature. 465 (7301): 1025. doi:10.1038/4651025a.
- ^ The Ingoldian fungi are primarily responsible for leaf decay and nutrient recycling in streams.
- ^ a b Dawson, John. "Who's in a name: Ingoldian fungi".
- ^ Ingold, Cecil Terence (1942). "Aquatic hyphomycetes of decaying alder leaves". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 25 (4): 339–417. doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(42)80001-7.
- ^ ‘HEALEY, Prof. Patsy’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 29 May 2013
- ^ Marren, Peter (18 June 2010). "Professor C Terence Ingold: Foremost authority on the study of fungi whose work spanned eight decades". The Independent. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ a b c Hawksworth, David L. "Obituary: C Terence Ingold (1905–2010)" (PDF). IMA Fungus. International Mycological Association. pp. 17–18. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Ingold.
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