Barbara G. Briggs

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 [http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/apg/APG.html 1998] 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.

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. 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". She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).

Since her retirement she continues as an Honorary Research Associate at [https://web.archive.org/web/20060128234743/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/organisation_businesses/our_people/research_associates/Barbara_Briggs the Sydney Botanical Gardens].

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