Person
Grieve, Brian John (1907 - 1997)
- Born
- 15 August 1907
Allans Flat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 5 September 1997
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Brian Grieve was the first Professor of Botany appointed to the University of Western Australia. His research interests in botany focused particularly on mycological physiology, ecophysiology of sclerophyll forests and biosystematics. Grieve is widely known as half of "Blackall and Grieve", the multi-volume How to know Western Australian wildflowers, to which over a period of 50 years he contributed nine volumes after William Blackall's death in 1941
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Chronology
- 1929
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Melbourne
- 1930
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
- 1931
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of London
- 1931 - 1947
- Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in Botany, University of Melbourne
- 1939 - 1940
- Military service - Second World War. Lieutenant Commander, Royal Australian Navy
- 1939 - 1997
- Award - Fellow, Linnean Society, London
- 1943
- Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne
- 1947 - 1957
- Career position - Head, Department of Botany, University of Western Australia
- 1948 - 1975
- Career position - Member, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1951
- Career position - President, Section M, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1952 - 1953
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1954 - 1972
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Western Australia
- 1956
- Award - Fulbright Fellowship
- 1957 - 1972
- Career position - Professor of Botany, University of Western Australia
- 1959 - 1978
- Career position - Member of the Board, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth
- 1966 - 1997
- Award - Fellow, Institution of Biology, London
- 1970 - 1971
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1975 - 1977
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1979
- Award - Medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1988
- Award - Australian Plants Award, Society for Growing Australian Plants
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Grieve, B. J., 'Blackall, William Edward (1876-1941), medical practitioner and botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 307. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070314b.htm. Details
CD Roms
- Diels, Ludwig, Plant Life of Western Australia: South of the Tropics (a translation by B.J. Grieve, B.B. Lamont and E.O. Hellmuth, edited by N. Gibson) (Perth: [s.n.], 2003). Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Royal Society Medallists, 1979', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 63 (1) (1980), 29-31. Details
- Atkins, Craig, 'Emeritus Professor Brian Grieve, 1907 - 1997', Australian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 93 (1997), 44-7. Details
- George, A. S., 'Brian John Grieve [1907 - 1997]', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 80 (4) (1997), 289-90, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58174757. Details
Resources
- CA 38, Navy Office [IV], Department of the Navy [II]; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: A6769, GRIEVE B J', A6769 Service Cards for Navy Officers, 1911-1970, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=5216402. Details
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Created: 12 February 2019, Last modified: 17 April 2024