Harry D. Thiers

Harry Delbert Thiers, born January 22nd 1919 in Fort McKavett, Texas, died August 8th 2000 in Ohio, was an American mycologist who studied and named a great many fungi of native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco State University for many years, and a number of notable mycologists active as of the 2000s began as his students. He comprehensively revised and expanded on the North American collection of boletes and named many new species. [cite journal |author=Thiers BM, Halling RE |year=2003|title=Harry D. Thiers, 1919–2000 |journal=Mycologia |volume=95 |issue=6 |pages=1271–75 |id= |url=http://www.mycologia.org/cgi/reprint/95/6/1271.pdf?ck=nck|format=PDF |accessdate= 2008-02-12]

Species authored include:
*"Russula xanthoporphyrea"
*"Boletus pulcherrimus"

References

External links

[http://www.mssf.org/mnews/0009mn_ng.pdf "MSSF mourns Harry Thiers"] by Mike Boom, "Mycena News" 50(9):1,7, September 2000.