Solomon Wasser

Solomon Wasser was born in 1946 in Lviv

Solomon Wasser was born in Lviv on August 26, 1946. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was an actress and a teacher. He finished high school in Berehove in Transcarpathia.

In 1964 he began studying biology at Uzhhorod University, where he became interested in fungi. He graduated in 1969 and continued his studies in the mycology department of the Kyiv Institute of Botany. He wrote his first doctoral thesis on the fungi of Ukraine's steppe zone in 1973 and a second on the agaric family of the Soviet Union in 1982.

He led expeditions across the Soviet Union and worked on industrial mushroom growing in Ukraine. In 1985 he became head of the algology department at the Kyiv Institute of Botany. From 1988 to 1994 he was a professor at the Kyiv Medical Institute, and in 1988 he was elected to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

He immigrated to Israel in 1994 and headed a center for spore plants and fungi at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa. He wrote a book on the edible and poisonous fungi of Israel and studied fungi in the Carmel reserve and the Dead Sea. He continues to work with scientists from Ukraine and Russia.