Robert Lee Gilbertson
American mycologist (1925-2011) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 86
Robert Lee Gilbertson was a distinguished American mycologist and educator. He was a faculty member at University of Arizona for 26 years until his retirement from teaching in 1995; he was a Professor Emeritus at U of A until his death on October 26, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona. 2011.
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Photograph of Gilbertson in uniform of a combat infantryman in the Army
Gilbertson at Silver spur bar
Gilbertson's presidential address in Mycologia
Gilbertson leaning on a tree with a Fomitopsis fruit body
Two volumes each of European and North American Polypores by Gilbertson and Leif Ryvarden
Published books by Gilbertson and colleaguesAwards
About this person
He held concurrent positions as Plant Pathologist, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arizona (1967-95) for a project Research on wood-rotting fungi and other fungi associated with southwestern plants and was collaborator and consultant with Center for Forest Mycology Research, US Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin (1957-1981).