John Alan Elix
John Alan Elix | |
|---|---|
| Academic career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry lichenology taxonomy, plant physiology |
John Alan (Jack) Elix (born 1941)[1] emeritus professor in chemistry at the Australian National University,[2][3] is an organic chemist who has contributed in many fields: lichenology, lichen chemotaxonomy, plant physiology[2] and biodiversity and natural product chemistry.[3] He has authored 2282 species names,[4] and 67 genera[5] in the field of mycology. Elix edited the exsiccata series Lichenes Australasici exsiccati.[6] The standard author abbreviation Elix is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]
Education
His first degree, B.Sc., and his Ph.D. were both in organic chemistry from the University of Adelaide. This was followed by post-doctoral years at the University of Cambridge and then a D.Sc. in natural products chemistry from the Australian National University.[8]
Career
Elix spent a post doctoral year in 1966 at Cambridge, returning to Australia in 1967 to a lectureship in chemistry at the ANU.[1] He retired as professor of chemistry in 2002,[1] becoming professor emeritus.[3] By 1975 he had already published several papers on the organic chemistry of lichens,[9][10][11] and ultimately leading to work on the evolution, taxonomy and phylogeny of lichens.[12][13][14] For his work on lichens, Elix was awarded the Acharius Medal in 2004 and the Nancy T Burbidge Medal in 2015.[1] He is a prolific author (or coauthor) of new fungal and lichen species, having formally described about 1147 as of December 2017.[15] He was honoured in 1997, when lichenologist Helge Thorsten Lumbsch published Elixiaceae which is a family of fungi in the order Umbilicariales. It contains two genera, Meridianelia, and the type genus, Elixia, which is named after John Alan Elix.[16] He was also honoured again in 2004, with Melanelixia, which is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae,[17] and in 2016 with Astrothelium elixii, a rare bark-dwelling Bolivian lichen.[18]
Selected publications
- Elix, John A; Ernst-Russell, Karin D (1993), A catalogue of standardized thin layer chromatographic data and biosynthetic relationships for lichen substances, Australian National University
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cohn, Helen (2017). "Elix, John Alan (Jack) - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Professor John Elix". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "John ELIX | Emeritus Professor | DSc | Australian National University, Canberra | ANU | Research School of Chemistry (RSC)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- ↑ "Mycobank:Advanced search (author contains Elix & rank=sp.)". Mycobank. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ↑ "Using an advanced search (author name contains "Elix" AND rank=genus)". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ↑ "Lichenes Australasici exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=828430592". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Elix.
- ↑ Nash, T.H. "IAL - Acharius Medallists: Jack Elix". www.lichenology.org. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q104151554, Wikidata Q104151554
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q78432536, Wikidata Q78432536
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q104151783, Wikidata Q104151783
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q51148234, Wikidata Q51148234
{{citation}}:|doi-access=requires|doi=(help) - ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q54800616, Wikidata Q54800616
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q35753148, Wikidata Q35753148
- ↑ Lücking, Robert (2020). "Three challenges to contemporaneous taxonomy from a licheno-mycological perspective". Megataxa. 1 (1): 78–103 [85]. doi:10.11646/megataxa.1.1.16.
- ↑ Lumbsch, H.T. (1997). "Systematic studies in the suborder Agyriineae (Lecanorales)". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 83: 62.
- ↑ Blanco, Oscar; Crespo, Ana; Divakar, Pradeep K.; Esslinger, Theodore L.; Hawksworth, David L.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2004). "Melanelixia and Melanohalea, two new genera segregated from Melanelia (Parmeliaceae) based on molecular and morphological data" (PDF). Mycological Research. 108 (8): 873–884. doi:10.1017/S0953756204000723. PMID 15449592.
- ↑ Flakus, Adam; Kukwa, Martin; Aptroot, André (2016). "Trypetheliaceae of Bolivia: an updated checklist with descriptions of twenty-four new species". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 661–692. doi:10.1017/s0024282915000559.
Further reading
- Kantvilas, G; McCarthy, Patrick M. (Patrick Martin), 1955-; Louwhoff, Simone Henrica J. J; Elix, John A; Wirth, V (2001), Lichenological contributions in honour of Jack Elix, J. Cramer, ISBN 978-3-443-58057-5
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)