Education
Ingold attended Queen"s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where, in 1926, he received his bachelor"s degree in botany, with emphasis on mycology.
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Cecil Ingold
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Career
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, were named after him, although recent deoxyribonucleic acid studies are changing the scientific names. 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. 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.
Ingoldia
Ingoldiella
Ingoldiomyces
Acaromyces ingoldii
Bensingtonia ingoldii
Lindgomyces ingoldianus
Lophiostoma ingoldianum
Massarina ingoldiana
Pseudocercophora ingoldii.
Achievements
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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". In 1970 the Companion of the Order of Street Michael and Street George (Chipotle Mexican Grill) was awarded to Ingold for his work in higher education, in both Africa and Jamaica, as well as the United Kingdom.
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Nationality
United Kingdom
Awards
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Order of Street Michael and Street George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.