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Stanley John Hughes, CM, FRSC, mycologist (born 17 September 1918 in Llanelli, Wales; died 7 November 2019 in Ottawa, ON). Hughes was widely recognized for his research and contributions to the field of mycology, which included the classification of fungi.
Education and Career
Stanley Hughes graduated from the University of Aberystwyth in Wales. (See also Welsh Canadians.) He worked as an assistant mycologist at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute in Kew, England from 1945 to 1952. A naturalized Canadian, Hughes joined Agriculture Canada in Ottawa as a research scientist in 1952. (See also Canadian Citizenship.) Hughes initiated a new era in the systematics of conidial fungi by focusing attention on the mechanisms of spore ontogeny. He also contributed an elegant taxonomic analysis of the "sooty-mold" complex.
In 1975 Hughes was president of the Mycological Society of America, and from 1971 to 1983 vice-president of the International Mycological Association.
Honours and Awards
Stanley Hughes received several honours including the Jakob Eriksson Gold Medal of the Swedish Academy of Science (1969) and the George Lawson Medal of the Canadian Botanical Association (1981). He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an honorary research associate at the Biosystematics Research Centre of Central Experimental Farm, and an elected foreign member of the Linnean Society of London. Hughes was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2010.
