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1727 - 1806 
Michel Adanson Michel Adanson was a French botanist and mycologist who developed a competing system of classification to that of Linnaeus, published in Familles des Plantes in 1763. Adanson was the first to classify lichens among the fungi. |
1930 - 2012 
Vernon Ahmadjian Vernon Ahmadjian was an American lichenologist who was especially interested in symbiosis. |
1908 - 2001 
Babette Brown Babette I. Brown Coleman was an American botanist and plant collector on the faculty of University of Rochester, New York. She specialized in bryology and lichenology nad contributed significantly to the Cornell University herbaria while under the tutelage of Walter C. Muenscher. |
1842 - 1914 
William Calkins William W. Calkins was an American lumberman and amateur mycologist, botanist, and geologist. His personal herbarium of vascular plants was depostied at University of Notre Dame. |
1828 - 1880 
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Isaac Carroll Isaac Carroll was an Irish botanist who worked primarily as a lichenologist. |
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1893 - 1974 
Hempstead Castle Hempstead Castle was an American bryologist and lichenologist, and professor at Yale University. |
1829 - 1919
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Albert Commons Albert Commons was an American farmer and amateur botanist who collected extensively in Delaware and adjacent states during the 19th Century. Many of his specimens, including thousands of fungi and lichens, were deposited with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (PH). |
1929 - 2003 
William Culberson William Louis Culberson was a well-known and prolific American lichenologist in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. |
1855 - 1906 
Clara Cummings Clara Eaton Cummings was a cryptogamic botanist who collected in Jamaica, and who determined the Alaskan lichen collections made by members of the Harriman Expedition of 1899. |
1794 - 1843
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Jean-Marie Despreaux Jean-Marie Despreaux was a French physician and cryptogamic botanist who explored Greece and the Canary Islands, among other places, settling in Mexico to practice medicine where he continued botanical pursuits. |
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1861 - 1927 
Bruce Fink Bruce Fink was a well known American lichenologist, and specialized on the lichen genus Cladonia |
1832 - 1913 
Theodor Fries Theodor Magnus Fries was a noted Swedish lichenologist and botanist who published Lichenographia Scandinavica in the 1870s. |
1868 - 1940
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Hugo Gluck Hugo Glueck was a German mycologist and lichenologist who also published on aquatic plants, algae, and pteridophytes. |
1928 - 1990 
Mason Ellsworth Jr. Hale Mason Ellsworth Hale was an American lichenologist who specialized in the family Parmeliaceae. He was a pioneer in the application of chemotaxonomy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to lichen systematics |
1836 - 1915 
Hermann Hasse Hermann Edward Hasse was a German-born physician and amateur lichenologist who in 1913 authored The Lichen Flora Of Southern California. |
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1875 - 1932 
Reginald Howe Reginald Heber Howe was an American schoolteacher, ornithologist, entomologist, and lichenologist. He studied lichens of the northeastern USA as well as more focused monographic studies on Ramalina and Usnea. |
1881 - 1979
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Roy Latham Roy Latham was an American lichenologist with additional broad interests in natural history, botany and zoology and was described as "one of Long Island's greatest naturalists..." Some 100,000 of his collections of plants, algae, and fungi were deposited with Cornell University. |
1879 - 1927 
Annie Lorenz Annie Lorenz was a well-respected and published American bryologist, influenced as a young girl by the botanists George G. Kennedy and Edwin Faxon. |
1767 - 1849 
Charles Lyell Charles Lyell (Botanist) was a Scottish bryologist and lichenologist. Lyell also translated Dante. He should not be confused with his son, Charles Lyell the paleobotanist/geologist. |
1864 - 1927 
George Merrill George Knox Merrill was an American photographer, artist, journalist, and lichenologist who published extensively on American lichens. |
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1869 - 1933 
Charles Plitt Charles P. Plitt was an American public school teacher and lichenologist from Maryland, who kept detailed notes on his more than 3000 botanical excursions in the Baltimore area between 1899 and 1922. Plitt's private lichen collection of more that 10,000 specimens is now at the U.S.D.A.'s National Agricultural Library. |
1880 - 1921 
Lincoln Riddle Lincoln Ware Riddle was an American lichenologist who in his short academic career had positions at both Wellesley College and Harvard University. He died at the age of 40 after a "long illness." |
1863 - 1928 
Albert Schneider Albert Schneider was an American botanist, bacteriologist, and pharmacognosist who served on the faculties of several universities over his professional career. He was also known an an inventor and a criminologist, and in 1924 invented a lie detector based on word association tests combined with a "capillary electrometer." |
1829 - 1919 
Simon Schwendener Simon Schwendener as a Swiss botanist, microscopist and lichenologist, most famous for his "Dual Hypothesis" of the nature of lichens, which although controversial when proposed, was eventually proven correct. His original presentation on the matter was very direct: "According to the current view of the speaker lichens have to be seen not as autonomous plants, but as fungi in connection with algae." |
1817 - 1886 
Edward Tuckerman Edward Tuckerman was an American lichenologist and professor of history and botany at Amherst College, Massachusetts. |
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1918 - 2020 
William Weber Bill Weber was an American botanist and authority on lichens and mosses of the Galapagos Islands and of the Rocky Mountains. |
1824 - 1907 
Henry Willey Henry Willey was an American newspaper editor and lichenologist, whose collection of some 10,000 lichens is deposited at the Smithsonian Institution. |
1828 - 1880 
Johan Zetterstedt Johan Emanuel Zetterstedt was a Swedish botanist and bryologist whose collections mainly reside at the Natural History Museum, London (BM). |