In 1983, at the age of 81, she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on “mobile genetic elements,” that is, genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome. McClintock was the first woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.
Her farm forestry work was probably her most important contribution because of the way it helped reshape attitudes towards land use and break down barriers between farmers and foresters.
Lucy Moore was sometimes called ‘the mother of New Zealand botany’ and few botanists may ever again equal her range of expertise.
New Zealand botanical artist
New Zealand missionary
New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner
English author who wrote mainly about life in New Zealand.
German-Australian naturalist
Australian writer