Anthony "Tony" Peter John Trinci (1936, Swindon – 7 October 2020) was a British mycologist, botanist, and microbiologist.
[1] Anthony P. J. Trinci's parents, both born in Italy, had a troubled marriage and separated before his birth, which occurred after his mother immigrated to England.
During WW II, a V-1 flying bomb passed through his bedroom (while he was absent), brought down the ceiling, but failed to explode until it landed about 100 yards down the road and killed several people.
[4] Trinci was a science teacher in Rayleigh, Essex for a period of time but soon grew bored and returned to Durham for Ph.D.
He made substantial contributions to the development of Quorn[2] and to Dupont's addition of fungal enzymes to commercial animal feed.
Their collaboration elucidated the life cycles of anaerobic fungi in the gastrointestinal tracts of large, mammalian herbivores.