John Beaumont Williams
Australian botanist (1932-2005) · Australia · On the map · Scientists · Died at 73
John Beaumont Williams was an Australian botanist who spent most of his working life, from 1957 until 1992 as a lecturer in taxonomy, anatomy and ecology at the University of New England. He graduated Bachelor of Science from Sydney University in 1953 and commenced a PhD under the supervision of Noel Beadle.
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When Beadle was appointed Chair of Botany at the University of New England, Williams followed to take up a lecturing position at the same institution and to complete his PhD. For the next few years he concentrated on teaching, fieldwork and producing plant lists for north-eastern New South Wales as well as spending time studying in the Jodrell Laboratory at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew working on the family Haemodoraceae.
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