Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth

Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (9 October 1905 in Birmingham – 25 October 1998 in Derby) was a British mycologist and scientific historian.

Ainsworth received his doctorate in Biology from the University of London in 1934.

From the 1930s to 1960s, he studied and wrote on fungi including their medical uses.

[1] In 1962 botanists Augusto Chaves Batista and Raffaele Ciferri circumscribed a genus of fungi (family Chaetothyriaceae) named Ainsworthia and named in Geoffrey Ainsworth's honour.

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