Born: 25 July 1922, Australia
Died: 8 July 2022
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Margaret Beth Noye
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Beth Gott is a plant physiologist and ethnobotanist who is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University. She taught at universities in the U.S.A. and Hong Kong before joining Monash University in the early 1980s. Her particular area of interest and expertise is the traditional significance and uses of indigenous Australian plants. Gott has written many papers on the use of indigenous plants in south-east Australia, and was the first to develop a comprehensive database of Aboriginal plant food knowledge. She planted her first Aboriginal plant garden on he Monash campus in 1985.
Chronology
1943
Education – Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Melbourne
c. 1980
Career event – Began working for Monash University as a Botanist
2017
Award – Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the biological sciences as an ethnobotanist specialising in the use of native plants by indigenous people