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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-12-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002702b.htm person Vickery Joyce Winifred MBE AACR2 15 December 1908 29 May 1979 Place of Birth Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Cheltenham, New South Wales, Australia Plant taxonomist 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. 1931 1931 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney 1931 1936 Career position - Science research scholarship, University of Sydney 1933 1933 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney 1934 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 1949 Career position - Honorary Abstractor (Botany), Australian Science Abstracts, Australian National Research Council 1959 1959 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney 1962 1962 Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) - Botanist with the NSW Agriculture Department 1964 1964 Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales 1964 1968 Career position - Senior Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales 1968 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 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Honorary Abstractor (Botany), Australian Science Abstracts 1949 -

 National Herbarium of New South Wales, Colony and State of New South Wales (1896 - )

Senior Botanist 1964 - 1968; Honorary Research Fellow 1973 - 1979

 Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales (1878 - )

Awarded the Medal 1964

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 'Vickery, Joyce Winifred', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Vickery, Joyce Winifred Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Joyce Vickery (1908-1979) botanist Holland, Alison Joyce Vickery (1908-1979) botanist Sydney Women's Redress Press Inc 1988 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology Heather Radi Book Section: Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908-1979), botanist and conservationist Hooker, Claire Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908-1979), botanist and conservationist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2002 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z John Ritchie and Diane Langmore 452-453 Journal Article: Joyce Winifrid Vickery: Taxonomic Botanist Hooker, Claire Joyce Winifrid Vickery: Taxonomic Botanist 2000 Australasian Science 21 7 46 Journal Article: Obituary: Robert Henry Anderson (1899-1969) [includes list of publications] Vickery, Joyce W. Obituary: Robert Henry Anderson (1899-1969) [includes list of publications] 1972 Contributions. New South Wales. National Herbarium 4 5 245-249 Book: Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science Hooker, Claire Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science Carlton Melbourne University Press 2004 Journal Article: Joyce Winifred Vickery 1908-1979 Lee, Alma Joyce Winifred Vickery 1908-1979 1980 Telopea 2 1 1-9 Joyce Vickery Joyce Vickery Collection of Mrs Valerie Jones.

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