Name Barbara Briggs Role Botanist | Books Plantaginaceae Awards Clarke Medal | |
Barbara Gillian Briggs (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 APG system.
Briggs and Craig Anthony Atkins were co-awarded the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1994.
Briggs was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1998.
Since her retirement she continues as an Honorary Research Associate at the Sydney Botanical Gardens.
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