About Lois Hattery Tiffany
Lived 1924 – 2009 (aged 84–85). Lois Hattery Tiffany was an American botanist, mycologist, university teacher, botanical collector and scientific collector.
Lois Hattery Tiffany (1924–2009) was a mycologist who taught for over 50 years at Iowa State University (ISU) and was known as "Iowa's mushroom lady". She won a number of awards, including becoming the first recipient of both the Mycological Society of America's Weston Award and the Iowa Governor’s Medal for Science Teaching. She published on many different aspects of fungal life, but her special area of research was Iowa's prairie fungi.
Early life and education Lois Hattery was born March 8, 1924, near Collins, Iowa, to Charles Hattery and Blanche (Brown) Hattery.
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Who was Lois Hattery Tiffany?
American mycologist (1924–2009)
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Lois Hattery Tiffany was born in 1924 in Collins.
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Lois Hattery Tiffany died in 2009 in Ames.
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Lois Hattery Tiffany was a botanist, mycologist, university teacher, botanical collector and scientific collector.
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Lois Hattery Tiffany was American.
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