https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8877-4796
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ABSTRACT
Prof. Dr. Walter Gams, an internationally famous taxonomist, died on 9 April 2017 in Bomarzo, Italy. He spent his career at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) in the Netherlands. Walter specialized in the taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi, in particular little-differentiated hyphomycetes, and was considered the world authority on the identification of soil fungi. He was influential in shaping the rules for fungal nomenclature for several decades. He was presented with the Distinguished Mycologist Award of the Mycological Society of America in 2005. Walter was an all round naturalist and teacher, and an avid amateur musician and patron of the arts. He travelled widely and had friends all over the world, who miss his hospitality and generous spirit.
Significant works by this author:
10.1080/00275514.1999.12061016
10.1080/00275514.1983.12023783
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful to Walter’s family, Sophia Luinge and Hedi and Hilde Gams, for sharing their memories and photographs with us. After much effort by our colleagues Hans-Josef Schroers and Tom Gräfenhan and Walter’s family, his library has been transferred to Rasoul Zare’s institute in Iran. Walter’s 35 volumes of notes remain in our hands, awaiting a plan that will allow them to be digitized efficiently and made available to future researchers.