Person
Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908 - 1979)
MBE
Joyce Vickery
Details
- 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.
Details
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
Related entries
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, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6297664. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/317277710. Details
- 'Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908-1979)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-744072. Details
Digital resources
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018