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Cecil Terence Ingold (5 July 1905 – 31 May 2010) was "one of the most influential mycologists of the twentieth century". 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,〔The Ingoldian fungi are primarily responsible for leaf decay and nutrient recycling in streams.〕 were named after him, 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.〔 In 1932, at the urging of Walter Buddin, Ingold joined the British Mycological Society.〔 In 1938 Ingold began his study of freshwater fungi and in 1942 he published his seminal work: "Aquatic hyphomycetes of decaying alder leaves". Ingold continued to work on fungi for thirty years after his retirement.〔 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〔‘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 )〕 and son is the noted anthropologist Tim Ingold. == 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cecil Terence Ingold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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