George Lorenzo Zundel
George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel (Brigham City, Utah, December 23, 1885 – March 10, 1950) was an American mycologist, phycologist, and plant pathologist.
Biography[]
He studied at Brigham Young University in 1909, and afterwards at the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University), where in 1911, he received a degree. He taught botany at the university, and middle school biology in Brigham City. In 1913 he moved to New York and two years later received a M.Sc. from Cornell University. In 1926 he began studying at Yale University; where he defended a doctoral thesis, dedicated to Ustilaginomycetes. From 1928-1946, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and then retired for health reasons. Zundel died March 10, 1950 in Brigham City.
Some publications[]
The standard author abbreviation Zundel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
- 1937. Raspberry Disease Control
Books[]
- 1939. (Ustilaginales): Additions and Corrections. North American Flora 7, splits 14. With John Hendley Barnhart. Ed. New York Botanical Garden, 75 pp.
- 1938. The Ustilaginales of South Africa
- 1938. To New Smut from Southern Chile
- 1937. Miscellaneous Notice on the Ustilaginales
Honors[]
Eponymy[]
- Zundeliomyces Vánky, 1987
- Thirum. & Naras., 1952 without. Dermatosorus Sawada, 1949
- Cif., 1933 without. Sporisorium tembuti (Henn. & Pole-Evans) Vánky, 2007
- Hirschh., 1986, nom. inval.
- Vánky, 1995
- Hirschh., 1943
References[]
- Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Utah State University alumni
- 1950 deaths
- American mycologists
- 1885 births
- University of Pennsylvania faculty