Born: 3 October 1923, Australia (assumed)
Died: 15 August 2018
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Joy Garden, Joy Gardiner-Garden
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Joy Thompson joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales as a flora writer and specimen curator in 1946, and was Honorary Research Associate at the Herbarium from 1982 to 2009. In writing material for the new Flora of New South Wales she wrote principally on the families Polygalaceae, Tremandraceae and Fabaceae, Conifers, and small mostly aquatic monocotyledonous families. She was particularly interested in alpine and sub-alpine plants, substantial collections of which she made over a period of 30 years from 1965 and which are now in the Herbarium. Thompson published descriptions of more than 90 new taxa.
Chronology
1946
Education – Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc), University of Sydney
1946 – 1958
Career position – Flora writer and specimen curator, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1952 – 1954
Career position – Co-editor, Australasian herbarium news
1952 – 1954
Career position – Secretary, Systematic Botany Committee, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1968 – 1982
Career position – Botanist (part-time), National Herbarium of New South Wales
1982
Life event – Retired
1982 – 2009
Career position – Honorary Research Associate, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1987
Education – Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
1989 – 1990
Career position – Visiting Botanist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew