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Title: CLARK THOMAS ROGERSON, 1918 - 2001

Author
item Samuels, Gary

Submitted to: Mycologia
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/4/2003
Publication Date: 1/10/2003
Citation: Samuels, G.J. Clark thomas rogerson, 1918 - 2001. Mycologia. Vol. 95(4)pp.773-779,2003.

Interpretive Summary: Dr. Clark T. Rogerson was a scientist who studied fungi at the New York Botanical Garden. His research specialties concerned the naming and classification of the sac fungi or Ascomycetes, many of which cause diseases of plants. He also studied the classification of fungi that grow on other fungi some of which are useful in the biological control of plant diseases. His interests in fungi were broad and he attempted to collect and record all of the fungi that grew in the states of New York and Utah. In his early career he was on the faculty of Kansas State University as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor of botany and mycology for the Kansas Agricultural Experiment station. In that position he identified many of the fungi that cause diseases on crop plants in Kansas. Dr. Rogerson was extremely generous with his ideas as well as his research notes. His research served as the foundation for future studies on plant pathogenic and biological control fungi.

Technical Abstract: Dr. Clark T. Rogerson was a scientist who studied fungi at the New York Botanical Garden. His research specialties concerned the naming and classification of the sac fungi or Ascomycetes, many of which cause diseases of plants. He also studied the classification of fungi that grow on other fungi some of which are useful in the biological control of plant diseases. His interests in fungi were broad and he attempted to collect and record all of the fungi that grew in the states of New York and Utah. In his early career he was on the faculty of Kansas State University as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor of botany and mycology for the Kansas Agricultural Experiment station. In that position he identified many of the fungi that cause diseases on crop plants in Kansas. Dr. Rogerson was extremely generous with his ideas as well as his research notes. His research served as the foundation for future studies on plant pathogenic and biological control fungi.