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Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912 - 1977)

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Botanist

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

Nancy Tyson Burbidge was a systematic botanist and Curator of the Herbarium, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, 1946-73. 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.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1937 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Western Australia
1939 - 1940 Worked on the taxonomy of Australian plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK
1940 - 1943 Field and herbarium work in Western Australia
1943 - 1946 Assistant Agronomist at Waite Agricultural Research Institute
1945 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Western Australia
1946 - 1967 Systematic Botanist in the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
1946 - 1973 Curator of the Herbarium at the Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
1953 On secondment as Australian Botanical liaison officer at Kew herbarium in London
1961 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Western Australia
1967 - 1973 Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
1973 - 1977 Director of the Flora of Australia project
1976 Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

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'Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912-1977), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0206b.htm.

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997
Modified: 16 September 2004

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