Honorary Members
Members of the MSA are encouraged to submit nominations for MSA Honorary Members to the Chair of the Honorary Awards Committee.
Nomination deadline: February 15, annually
Requirements:
- 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. They may or may not be members of MSA.
- 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 MSA Honorary Awards Committee.
| Current MSA Honorary Members | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Appointed | Mycologist | Country | |
| 1983 | CV Subramanian | India | |
| 1985 | John Webster | United Kingdom | |
| 1987 | Gáston Guzmán | Mexico | |
| 1988 | Leif Ryvarden | Norway | |
| 1993 | Lennart Holm | Sweden | |
| 1993 | Erast Parmasto | Estonia | |
| 1994 | David L Hawksworth | United Kingdom | |
| 1994 | Brian C Sutton | United Kingdom | |
| 1994 | Joseph Wessels | Netherlands | |
| 1995 | Karl Esser | Germany | |
| 1996 | Junta Sugiyama | Japan | |
| 1996 | Anthony PJ Trinci | United Kingdom | |
| 1997 | Walter Gams | Netherlands | |
| 1998 | Ludmila Marvanová | Czech Republic | |
| 1998 | Roy Watling | United Kingdom | |
| 2000 | David J Read | United Kingdom | |
| 2001 | Birgitt Nordbring-Hertz | Sweden | |
| 2001 | John Pitt | Australia | |
| 2002 | Ove E. Eriksson | Sweden | |
| 2003 | Jeremy Burdon | Australia | |
| 2003 | Egon Horak | Switzerland | |
| 2004 | Rob Samson | Netherlands | |
| 2005 | Franz Oberwinkler | Germany | |
| 2006 | Michael Wingfield | South Africa | |
| 2007 | Jan Stenlid | Sweden | |
| 2008 | Angela Restrepo | Colombia | |
| 2008 | Gioconda San-Blas | Venezuela | |
| 2009 | Gordon Beakes | United Kingdom | |
| 2010 | Jos&e-acute; Carmine Dianese | Brazil | |
| 2011 | Susumu Takamatsu | Japan | |
| Past MSA Honorary Members | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Appointed | Mycologist | Country | Obituary |
| 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. |
| 1965 | JA von Arx | Netherlands | Deceased 1988. |
| 1965 | Grace M Waterhouse | United Kingdom | Deceased 1996. |
| 1965 | CT Ingold | United Kingdom | Deceased 2010. Nature 465: 1025, 2010. |
| 1966 | Lilian E Hawker | United Kingdom | Deceased 1991. |
| 1966 | JA Nannfeldt | Sweden | Deceased 1985. Mycologia 78:692-693, 1986. |
| 1973 | MB Ellis | United Kingdom | Deceased 1996. |
| 1973 | Roger Heim | France | Deceased 1979. Mycologia 72:1063-1064, 1980. |
| 1973 | Keisuke Tubaki | Japan | Deceased 2005. Mycoscience 46(6): 381-382, 2005. |
| 1983 | Emil Müller | Switzerland | Deceased 2008. |
| 1987 | Meinhard Moser | Austria | Deceased 2002. Inoculum 53(6):14, 2002. |
| 1987 | Colin Booth | United Kingdom | Deceased 2003. Mycol. Res. 107(11):1372-1375. |
| 1989 | Nils Fries | Sweden | Deceased 1994. Inoculum 46(3): 3, 1995. |
| 1992 | EJH Corner | United Kingdom | Deceased 1996. Mycologia 90(4): 732, 1998. |
| 1992 | Vera Holubová-Jechova | Czech Republic | Deceased 1993. Ceská Mykologie 47(1): 83, 1993. |
| 1993 | Josef Poelt | Austria |
Deceased 1995. |
| 1993 | Jorge E Wright | Argentina | Deceased 2005. Mycologia 98: 518-520, 2006. |
| 2003 | Tsuguo Hongo | Japan | Deceased 2007. Mycoscience 48(5): 326-327, 2007. |
