Person
Thompson, Joy (1923 - 2018)
- Born
- 3 October 1923
- Died
- 15 August 2018
- Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Joy Thompson joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales as a flora writer and specimen curator in 1946, and was Honorary Research Associate at the Herbarium from 1982 to 2009. In writing material for the new Flora of New South Wales she wrote principally on the families Polygalaceae, Tremandraceae and Fabaceae, Conifers, and small mostly aquatic monocotyledonous families. She was particularly interested in alpine and sub-alpine plants, substantial collections of which she made over a period of 30 years from 1965 and which are now in the Herbarium. Thompson published descriptions of more than 90 new taxa.
Details
Chronology
- 1946
- Education - BAgSc, University of Sydney
- 1946 - 1958
- Career position - Flora writer and specimen curator, National Herbarium of New South Wales
- 1952 - 1954
- Career position - Co-editor, Australasian herbarium news
- 1952 - 1954
- Career position - Secretary, Systematic Botany Committee, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1968 - 1982
- Career position - Botanist (part-time), National Herbarium of New South Wales
- 1982
- Life event - Retired
- 1982 - 2009
- Career position - Honorary Research Associate, National Herbarium of New South Wales
- 1987
- Education - MSc, University of Sydney
- 1989 - 1990
- Career position - Visiting Botanist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Wilson, Karen; and Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Joy Thompson 3 October 1923 - 15 August 2018', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 176 (2018), 23-8. http://www.asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/18-sep-176.pdf. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5946819. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91499261. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 15 October 2019