| Naomi Adeline Helen Millard | |
| Birth Name: | Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham |
| Birth Date: | 14 July 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Occupation: | biologist |
Naomi Adeline Helen Millard, née Bokenham (16 July 1914, Green Point, Cape Town – 12 June 1997) was a South African biologist, one of the founders of the Zoological Society of South Africa and the Zoologica Africana Journal.[1]
Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham was on 16 July 1914 in Green Point, Cape Town.[2] She graduated the Wynberg Girls’ High School and entered the University of Cape Town in 1932, completing a master's degree in 1935.
In 1938, Bokenham married Arthur Millard and later settled in Pillans Road, Rosebank, raising a son and a daughter.
In 1942, Millard was awarded a Ph.D. degree, and in 1946, she was appointed to the permanent staff as a lecturer.
In 1951, Millard published Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, south Africa in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.[3] By 1952, she was awarded a University Fellowship for the number and quality of her scientific publications. In 1958, Millard was promoted to a senior lectureship and in 1963 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.
From 1961 to 1972 Millard was an Honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.[4] In 1967, Millard published a work Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.[5]
In 1971, she retired from the University and joined the staff of the South African Museum as marine biologist studying South African hydroids.
In 1972-1977 Millard was a Journal Editor of Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council. Another Millard's work on hydroids was published in 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.[6] During her career she described over 100 South African taxa.[7]
In 1980, Millard was awarded the Gold Medal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.
Naomi A. H. Millard died on 12 June 1997.