Current
Euzeby, Jean Prof.
Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Toulouse, France
Schleifer, Karl-Heinz Professor Emeritus
Emeritus Professor, Technische Universität München, Germany
Garrity, George Professor Emeritus
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Former (Deceased)
Breed, Robert Stanley (1877 - 1956)
Ph.D. (1902), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Professor of Biology (1902), Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
Head (1930 – 1946), Bacteriology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY, USA
Professor Emeritus (1948), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
President (1927) of the Society of American Bacteriologists (SAB)
Founding Member (1930) of the International Society for Microbiology (ISM)
1st Secretary of International Nomenclature Committee for Bacteriology of the ISM (1930)
Editor, 1st Code of Nomenclature for Bacteriology (1948)
1923 - 1957, Editor of Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (1st – 7th Eds.)
Buchanan, Robert Earle (1883 - 1973)
Ph.D. (1908), Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Head of Bacteriology (1910), Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, USA
Director (1933 – 1948), Agricultural Experiment Station, ISC, Ames, IA, USA
Professor Emeritus (1948), Iowa State College, Ames, IA, USA
President (1918) of the Society of American Bacteriologists (SAB)
Member of Winslow Committee of SAB (Winslow et al., 1917, 1920)
Secretary of Commission on Nomenclature and Taxonomy, Paris (1930)
Founding Member (1930) of the International Society for Microbiology (ISM)
1st Chairman of Judicial Commission of International Committee for Bacteriological Nomenclature
Editor, 1st Code of Nomenclature for Bacteriology (1948)
Founding Editor (1951), International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy
Editor (1966 - 1970), International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology
Chairman (1957 – 1973), Bergey’s Manual Trust
Editor (1966), Index Bergeyana (1st Ed.)
Cowan, Samuel Tertius (1905 - 1976)
M.D. (1933), Manchester University; D.Sc. (1953), Manchester University
Physician, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
1st Assistant in Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, UK
Lecturer in Bacteriology, Manchester University, Manchester, UK
Curator, National Collection of Type Cultures, London, UK
Gibson, T. (19xx – 19xx)
Ph.D. (19xx), Professor of Bacteriology, College of Agriculture, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Komagata, Kazuo (1928 – 2022)
Ph.D. (1960), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Associate Professor (1968), Institute of Applied Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
Professor (1978), Institute of Applied Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
Director (1981), Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN, Saitama
Director (1981), Culture Collection of the Institute of Applied Microbiology, The University of Tokyo
Professor Emeritus (1989), The University of Tokyo
Moore, Walter Edward Cladek (1927 - 1996)
B.S. (1951), University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H., USA
M.S. (1952), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ph.D. (1954), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Professor (from 1954), Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Director, Anaerobic Bacteriology Laboratory, VPI, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Distinguished Professor (from 1981), VPI and State Univ, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Vice-Chair (from 1978), Judicial Commission of the ICSB
Editor-in Chief (from 1980), International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology
Murray, Everitt George Dunne (1890 - 1964)
B.A. in Zoology (1912), Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
M.D. (1916), St. Barts & The London School of Medicine, London, UK
Licentiate (1916) of the Society of Apothecaries, London, UK
Established the Murray Collection of Enterobacteriaceae (1917 - 1954)
Lecturer (1923), Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Director (1925), Medical Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Lecturer (1926), Pathology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Professor (1930), Bacteriology & Immunology, McGill Univ, Montreal, Canada
Member (from 1931), Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists
Member (from 1937), Bergey’s Manual Trust
Committee (1939), 1st International Rules of Bacteriological Nomenclature
Member (from 1939), 1st Class of the Judicial Commission of the ICSB
Co-Editor (1939), 5th Edition of The Bergey’s Manual
Co-Editor (1948), 6th Edition of The Bergey’s Manual
Chair (1953 - 1962), ICSB
Guest Professor (from 1955), University of Western Ontario, Canada
Co-Editor (1957), 7th Edition of The Bergey’s Manual
Life Member of the ICSB (from 1962)
Murray, Robert George Everitt (1919 - 2022)
Ph.D. (1943), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Professor of Bacteriology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Skerman, Victor Bruce Darlington (1921 – 1993)
Sneath, Peter Henry Andrews (1923 – 2011)
Trüper, Hans Georg (1936 – 2016)
Ph.D. (1964), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Wayne, Lawrence Gershon (1926 – 2018)
Ph.D. (19xx), University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles California, USA
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