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Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912 - 1977)

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Born: 5 August 1912  Yorkshire, England.  Died: 4 March 1977  Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Nancy Tyson Burbidge was a systematic botanist and Curator of the Herbarium, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, 1946-73. She published Flora of the ACT with Max Gray and several other books on Australian plants. Founding member and twice president, National Parks Association of the ACT and prominent in lobbying for the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Namadgi National Park. Commemorated by an altar-frontal, showing banksias and honey-eaters, in St Michael's Anglican Church, Mount Pleasant, Perth and by the Nancy T. Burbidge Memorial, an amphitheatre in the National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.

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Chronology
1937Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Western Australia
1939 - 1940Worked on the taxonomy of Australian plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK
1940 - 1943Field and herbarium work in Western Australia
1943 - 1946Assistant Agronomist at Waite Agricultural Research Institute
1945Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Western Australia
1946 - 1967Systematic Botanist in the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
1946 - 1973Curator of the Herbarium at the Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
1953On secondment as Australian Botanical liaison officer at Kew herbarium in London
1961Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Western Australia
1967 - 1973Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
1973 - 1977Director of the Flora of Australia project
1976Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

 
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