Person

Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908 - 1979)

MBE

Born
15 December 1908
Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
Died
29 May 1979
Cheltenham, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Plant taxonomist

Summary

Joyce Vickery was a forensic botanist who was most noted for her work on the kidnap and murder case of Graham Thorne in 1960. The successful conviction of the culprit was based largely on her analysis of crime scene plant matter and soil. Vickery was the first female researcher appointed to the New South Wales Herbarium and many of her taxonomic correspondences between 1935 and 1972 are housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, New South Wales.

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Chronology

1931
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
1931 - 1936
Career position - Science research scholarship, University of Sydney
1933
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
1934
Career position - President, University of Sydney Biology Society
1936 - 1964
Career position - Assistant Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1937 - 1938
Career position - Spent a year at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London
1949
Career position - Honorary Abstractor (Botany), Australian Science Abstracts, Australian National Research Council
1959
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney
1962
Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) - Botanist with the NSW Agriculture Department
1964
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1964 - 1968
Career position - Senior Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1968
Life event - Retired
1971 - 1978
Life event - Honorary Treasurer, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1973 - 1979
Life event - Honorary Research Fellow, National Herbarium of New South Wales

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Published resources

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

Books

  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Holland, Alison, 'Joyce Vickery (1908-1979) botanist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
  • Hooker, Claire, 'Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908-1979), Botanist and Conservationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 452-453. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160544b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Hooker, Claire, 'Joyce Winifrid Vickery: Taxonomic Botanist', Australasian Science, 21 (7) (2000), 46. Details
  • Lee, Alma, 'Joyce Winifred Vickery 1908-1979', Telopea, 2 (1) (1980), 1-9. Details
  • Vickery, Joyce W., 'Obituary: Robert Henry Anderson (1899-1969) [includes list of publications]', Contributions. New South Wales. National Herbarium, 4 (5) (1972), 245-249. Details

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