Walter Gams

Konrad Walter Gams (9 August 1934 – 9 April 2017) was an Austrian mycologist. He worked as a scientist for his entire career at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute) in the Netherlands. He served in the international authority on classification of fungi, the Special Committee on Fungi and Lichens (renamed Nomenclatural Committee for Fungi), from which he contributed to the development of the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants''. Some species of fungi he identified became sources of pharmaceutical drugs such as cephalosporin C (antibiotic) from ''Sarocladium strictum'' and ''Acremonium chrysogenum'', and ciclosporin (immunosuppressant) from ''Tolypocladium inflatum.'' Provided by Wikipedia