1. Rolf Singer was a German mycologist and taxonomist of gilled mushrooms.
11 Facts About Rolf Singer
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Rolf Singer wrote the book "The Agaricales in Modern Taxonomy".
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Rolf Singer fled to various countries during the Nazi period, pursuing mycology in the Soviet Union, Argentina, and finally the United States, as mycologist at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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Persecution by the Spanish authorities on behalf of the German government forced Rolf Singer to leave Spain for France in 1934.
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Rolf Singer was offered a position at Harvard University's Farlow Herbarium as a research associate, then as Assistant Curator, then as acting Curator following the death of Dr David Linder.
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Rolf Singer spent a total of seven years at the Farlow.
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In 1948, Rolf Singer left Harvard to become professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman in Argentina.
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Later, in 1961, Rolf Singer became professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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Rolf Singer was an author of new fungal species, having formally described 2260 in his career.
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Rolf Singer was a prolific writer, with more than 400 publications to his name.
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Rolf Singer has been honoured in the naming of several taxa of fungi.