Person

Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912 - 1977)

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Born
5 August 1912
Yorkshire, England
Died
4 March 1977
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Botanist

Summary

Nancy Burbidge was a systematic botanist and Curator of the Herbarium, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, 1946-1973. 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. The Nancy T. Burbidge Medal is presented annually by the Australian (later Australasian) Systematic Botany Society for outstanding contribution to taxonomic and systematic botanical work in Australia.

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Chronology

1937
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Western Australia
1939 - 1940
Career position - Worked on the taxonomy of Australian plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1940 - 1943
Career position - Field and herbarium work in Western Australia
1943 - 1946
Career position - Assistant Agronomist, Waite Agricultural Research Institute
1945
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Western Australia
1946 - 1967
Career position - Systematic Botanist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1946 - 1973
Career position - Curator of the Herbarium, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1947
Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus incrassata Labill. var. costata N. T. Burbidge
1951 - 1954
Career position - Co-editor, Australasian herbarium news
1952 - 1954
Career position - Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
1961
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Western Australia
1967 - 1973
Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1973 - 1977
Career position - Director of the Flora of Australia project
1976
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

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Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
  • McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

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Journal Articles

  • Burbidge, Andrew, 'Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM, DSc', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 171 (2017), 9-11. Details
  • Burbidge, Nancy T., 'Robert Brown's Australian collecting localities', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 80 (1956), 229-33. Details
  • Burbidge, Nancy T., 'The phytogeography of the Australian region', Australian Journal of Botany, 8 (2) (1960), 75-212. Details
  • Byrne, Margaret; Broadhurst, Linda; Leishman, Michelle; and Belov, Kathy, 'Women in conservation science making a difference', Pacific Conservation Biology, 24 (1) (2018), 6, https://doi.org/10.1071/PC18061. Details
  • Clarkson, John, 'The history of the Nancy Burbidge memorials', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 171 (2017), 11-6. Details
  • Clarkson, John, 'Nancy Burbidge admitted into the Australian Women's Pioneer Hall of Fame', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 171 (2017), 8-9. Details
  • George, Alex, 'Nancy Tyson Burbidge - a Centenary', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 152 (2013), 2-3. Details

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See also

Rosanne Walker; Christine Moje & Neville Walsh

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