Bright Sparcs
Biographical entry
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Vickery, Joyce Winifred (1908 - 1979)MBE |
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Born: 15 December 1908 Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 29 May 1979 Cheltenham, New South Wales, Australia. | ||
Joyce Winifred Vickery was a forensic botanist who was most noted for her work on the kidnap and murder case of Graham Thorne in 1960. The successful conviction of the culprit was based largely on her analysis of crime scene plant matter and soil. Vickery was the first female researcher appointed to the New South Wales Herbarium and many of her taxonomic correspondences between 1935 and 1972 are housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, New South Wales. |
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