Honorary Members

Members of the MSA are encouraged to submit nominations for MSA Honorary Members to the Committee on Honorary Members.

Application deadline: February 15, annually

Guidelines:

Honorary members are distinguished senior scientists with a long record of significant contributions to the science of fungal biology and who reside in and work in countries other than the U.S. and Canada.

To nominate a mycologist who resides outside of the U.S. and Canada for this Award, please submit a brief curriculum vitae and three letters of support, preferably in a single pdf file, to the Chair of the Honorary Awards Committee.

MSA Honorary Members
1951 Ernst A Gäumann – Switzerland Deceased
1963 – Mycologia 57:1-5. 1965
1955 Franz Petrak – Austria Deceased 1961
1965

GC Ainsworth – United Kingdom Deceased
1998 – Mycologia 91(4): 714. 1999
JA von Arx – Netherlands Deceased 1988
CT Ingold – United Kingdom
Grace M Waterhouse – United Kingdom Deceased 1996

1966 Lilian E Hawker – United Kingdom Deceased
1991
JA Nannfeldt – Sweden Deceased 1985 – Mycologia 78:
692-693. 1986
1973 MB Ellis –United Kingdom Deceased
1996
Roger Heim – France Deceased 1979 – Mycologia
72:1063-1064. 1980
Keisuke Tubaki – Japan
1983 RWG Dennis – United Kingdom Deceased 2003
R Kühner – France Deceased 1996 – Mycologia
91(4): 707. 1999.
Emil Müller – Switzerland
CV Subramanian – India
1985 John Webster – United Kingdom
1987 Colin Booth – United Kingdom
Gáston Guzmán – Mexico
Meinhard Moser – Austria Deceased 2002 - Inoculum 53(6):14. 2002.
1988 Leif Ryvarden – Norway
1989 Nils Fries – Sweden Deceased
1994 – Inoculum 46(3): 3. 1995
1992 EJH Corner – United Kingdom Deceased
1996 – Mycologia 90(4): 732. 1998
Vera Holubová-Jechová – Czech Republic Deceased
1993 – Ceská Mykologie 47(1): 83. 1993
1993 Lennart Holm – Sweden
Erast Parmasto – Estonia
Josef Poelt – Austria Deceased 1995 – Inoculum
46(3): 3, 1995
Jorge E Wright – Argentina
1994 David L Hawksworth – United Kingdom
Brian C Sutton – United Kingdom
Joseph Wessels – Netherlands
1995 Karl Esser – Germany
1996 Junta Sugiyama – Japan
Anthony PJ Trinci – United Kingdom
1997 Walter Gams – Netherlands
1998 Ludmila Marvanová – Czech Republic
Roy Watling – United Kingdom
2000 David J Read – United Kingdom
2001 Birgitt Nordbring-Hertz - Sweden
John Pitt - Australia
2002 Ove E. Eriksson - Sweden
2003 Jeremy Burdon - Australia
Tsuguo Hongo - Japan
Egon Horak - Switzerland
2004 Rob Samson - The Netherlands
2005 Franz Oberwinkler - Germany
2006 Michael Wingfield - South Africa
2007 Jan Stenlid - Sweden