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Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 - ) |
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| Born: 1930 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||
| Joan Winifred Cribb was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1994 for her contribution to botany. Her husband Alan, also a talented botanist, received the same award in 2001. Some time after marrying Alan, Lecture of Botany, she joined him at the University of Queensland as a part-time tutor and lecturer. She retired from teaching in 1989. Together they studied many botanical specimens, especially algae, and authored several books (see chronology section). Joan Cribb also published widely without him. Her main area of expertise was gasteromycetes having described twenty-one new species, but also described fourteen new species of marine fungi. |
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