He participated in 85 publications during his life, half of which focused on Myxomycetes. alba, and higher taxa, such as Acrasiogymnomycotina. Scientific production and contribution Īlexopoulos identified and named several species like Echinostelium elachiston, Echinostelium cribrarioides, Physarella oblonga f. In 1962, Alexopoulos took the position as a faculty member at University of Texas at Austin, where he lived the rest of his career and life In 1939 he married Juliet Dowdy, a music instructor.
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He worked as a Full Professor at MSU from 1952 to 1956, when he moved to the University of Iowa. In 1947, Alexopoulos started working at Michigan State University (MSU), where he published the first edition of the infamous Introductory Mycology book in 1952. After KSU, Alexopoulos worked at the Institute of Chemistry and Agriculture, in Greece and the Rubber Development Corporation, in Brazil. During this job, Alexopoulos met his soon-to-be wife Juliet Dowdy. advisor Frank Lincoln Stevens had a heart attack, Alexopoulos started to work as a full-time instructor teaching classes in Mycology from 1934 to 1935, when he was then hired by Kent State University (KSU) as an instructor in Biology.
degree at the beginning of the Great Depression, a period of unprecedented economic crisis in the USA. Career Īlexopoulos was unlucky to obtain his Ph.D. degree in 1932 based on his research entitled "Pycnidial Fungi from Vitis".
His master studies were focused on "the cytology of microsporogenesis of raspberry hybrids". From this interest, his career choice arose and he started horticulture at the University of Illinois in 1923. After returning to the US, Alexopoulos finished high school at Lane Technical High School and already showed interest in plants. Alexopoulos had to move to Greece at an early age to accompany his deployed father who joined the Greek army in the Balkan Wars. 3 Scientific production and contributionĪlthough born in the United States of America, Alexopoulos studied in Athens until the beginning of high school, when he returned to his birthplace of Chicago in October 1919.
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