What is Gastón Guzmán?
'''Gastón Guzmán''' (August 26, 1932 &ndash; January 12, 2016) was a [[Mexican people|Mexican]] [[mycology|mycologist]] and [[anthropology|anthropologist]]. He was an authority on the genus ''[[Psilocybe]]''. He was born in [[Xalapa]], [[Veracruz]]. ==Career== Guzmán began his career in 1955. During his early field work, he found many species which was little known at the time. This inspired him to choose [[fungi]] as the topic of his professional [[thesis]]. He was the co-founder and former president of the [[Mexican Mycological Society]] (1965), he was also president of the [[Latin American Mycological Association]] (2000–2002). He retired in 2010. ==Death== Guzmán died of a [[heart attack]] in [[Guadalajara]], Mexico on January 12, 2016 at the age of 83.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conacyt.mx/index.php/comunicacion/comunicados-prensa/561-el-conacyt-lamenta-el-sensible-fallecimiento-del-dr-gaston-guzman |title=El Conacyt lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Gastón Guzmán |publisher=Conacyt.com |access-date= January 16, 2016 |language= es}}</ref> He is survived by his daughter, Laura Guzmán Dávalos, who is also a mycologist. ==More reading== *{{cite book |author=Guzmán G. |title=The Genus ''Psilocybe'': A Systematic Revision of the Known Species Including the History, Distribution, and Chemistry of the Hallucinogenic Species |url=https://archive.org/details/genuspsilocybesy0000guzm |year=1983 |series=Beihefte Zur Nova Hedwigia. Heft 74 |publisher=J. Cramer |location=Vaduz, Liechtenstein |isbn=978-3-7682-5474-8}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Guzman, Gaston}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Mexican writers]] [[Category:Mexican academics]] [[Category:Mexican anthropologists]] [[Category:People from Veracruz]] {{bio-stub}}