Mildred K. Nobles

Mildred Katherine Nobles (7 June 1903 – 26 March 1993) was a Canadian mycologist. Born in Colborne, Northumberland County, Ontario, the only surviving child of William Harold and Ethel Nobles, she spent her early life at the family farm in Vernonville. She was an authority of the culture and identification of wood-rotting fungi, and developed a numerical identification system today known as the "Nobles Species Code". Nobles died in Ottawa, Ontario after a short illness.[1][2] She was awarded the "Distinguished Mycologist" award, along with Rolf Singer, by the Mycological Society of America in 1986.[3]

Education

Mildred’s family relocated to Regina Saskatchewan due to her father’s poor health, where she attended public schools and the Collegiate Institute. She later taught in multigrade schools around Regina. In the fall of 1927, Mildred entered Queen's University then later graduated in May 1929 with a B.A. (Honours) in Biology and Chemistry. [1] Mildred then attended graduate school at the University of Toronto. Her graduate studies were carried out under H.S. Jackson and her 1931 M.A. thesis was titled The fungus flora of some local soils. In 1935 she completed her Ph.D. after writing a dissertation on Conidial cycles in the Thelephoraceae.[2]

Career

Nobles’ mycological career was spent with the Canadian Department of Agriculture in Ottawa. In 1935 she was appointed Assistant Botanist and Plant Pathologist, and by 1959 she became Principal Mycologist. She retired from the department in 1969. [2]

Publications
  • Nobles MK. (1965). "Identification of cultures of wood-inhabiting Hymenomycetes". Canadian Journal of Botany. 43 (9): 1097–1139. doi:10.1139/b65-126.

References
  1. "Obituary". The Forestry Chronicle. 74 (3): 446–7. 1988. doi:10.5558/tfc74446-3.
  2. Ginns J. (1993). "Mildred K. Noble. 1903–1993". Mycologia. 86 (2): 296–8. JSTOR 3760653.
  3. "Distinguished Mycologist Award". Archived from the original on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
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