Joy Thompson Explained

Joy Thompson
Birth Name:Joy Gardiner-Garden
Birth Date:3 October 1923
Birth Place:Manly, Sydney
Death Place:Moss Vale
Education:Sydney University
Fields:Botany
Spouse:Max Thompson
Nationality:Australian
Author Abbrev Bot:Joy Thomps.

Joy Thompson (born Joy Gardiner-Garden, 1923, died 2018) was an Australian botanist. Her main research areas were taxonomy and Myrtaceae.

Life and career

Thompson's university studies occurred during the second world war and in university vacations she worked in the Land Army near Maitland. She graduated in 1946 with a B.Sc. (Agric) from the University of Sydney, and went to work at the New South Wales Herbarium (then a part of the NSW department of Agriculture). She was Honorary Secretary of the Systematic Botany Committee of ANZAAS from 1952 to 1954.

In 1956 she married Max Thompson and, as a public servant, resigned from her position as was required at the time. Ten years later, after the birth of her two children, she returned to work at the Herbarium, in a part-time position. On her retirement in 1982, she became an Honorary Research Associate,[1] [2] and until 2009, continued to work in this role, making the 2.5 hour train journey from Mittagong once a week.

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070314152640/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/organisation_businesses/our_people/research_associates/Joy_Thompson RBGS: Joy Thompson (honorary research associate)
  2. https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/thompson-joy.html CHAH: Joy Thompson
  3. Conn. BJ. Richards. PG. A new species of Oxalis section Corniculatae (Oxalidaceae) from Australasia. Australian Systematic Botany. 7. 2. 1994. 171. 1030-1887. 10.1071/SB9940171.
  4. Jacobs, S.W.L. . 2002. Four new species of Agrostis (Gramineae) from Australia. . Telopea. 9. 3 . 679–683. 10.7751/telopea20024007. free.