Jorge Eduardo Wright

Argentinian mycologist (1922–2005)

Jorge Eduardo Wright
Born	(1922-04-20)April 20, 1922 Buenos Aires
Died	January 4, 2005(2005-01-04) (aged 82)
Nationality	Argentinian
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires University of Michigan
Known for	Contributions to the knowledge of Gasteromycetes of South America
Scientific career
Fields	Mycology
Academic advisors	Alexander H. Smith
Author abbrev. (botany)	J.E.Wright

Jorge Eduardo Wright (20 April 1922 – 2005) was an Argentinian mycologist. Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1949. He was awarded a Latin American Guggenheim Fellowship and studied under Alexander H. Smith at the University of Michigan, under whom he received his Master of Science degree in botany in 1955. A year later he was awarded his doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires based on his research on the gasteromycetes and other basidiomycetes. Wright became a full professor in systematic botany at this university in 1960, a position he held until his retirement in 1988. During his career, he published over 120 scientific articles and several books.^[1]

In 1966, botanist Zdeněk Pouzar published a genus of fungi in the family Bondarzewiaceae, as Wrightoporia in Wright's honour.^[2]^[3]

The standard author abbreviation J.E.Wright is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[4]

References

^ Lopez SE, Cabral D, Cafaro MJ (2006). "Jorge Eduardo Wright, 1922–2005". Mycologia. 98 (3): 518–20. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.3.518. S2CID 85674579.
^ Pouzar Z. (1966). "Studies in the taxonomy of the Polypores I". Ceská Mykologie. 20 (3): 171–7.
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
^ International Plant Names Index. J.E.Wright.