Barbara G. Briggs
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Barbara Gillian Briggs Template:Post-nominals (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The IK lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of the 1998 Template:Webarchive APG system.
Briggs was employed at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney from 1959. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 1960.[1]
Briggs and Craig Anthony Atkins were co-awarded the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1994.[2]
Briggs was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1998.[3] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant service to science and research as a botanist, to documenting Australian flora, and to professional societies".[4][5] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).[6]
Since her retirement she continues as an Honorary Research Associate at the Sydney Botanical Gardens.
The plant, Lomandra briggsiana, was named in her honour.[7]
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