Lucy May Cranwell

New Zealand botanist (1907 - 2000) · New Zealand · Scientists · Died at 92

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Lucy May Cranwell was a New Zealand botanist responsible for groundbreaking work in palynology. Cranwell was appointed curator of botany at Auckland Museum in 1929, when she was 21 years old.

A life in dates

2000Died8 June 20001999Fellow of Auckland War Memorial MuseumAward1991Honorary Doctor of the University of AucklandAward1954Hector MedalAward1944Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiAward1937Fellow of the Linnean Society of LondonAwardLoder CupAward1907Born7 August 1907

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Lucy Cranwell in group portrait of Auckland Museum staff circa 1930s

Lucy Moore and Lucy Cranwell at Maungapohatu, 1932

Awards

Fellow of Auckland War Memorial Museum1999

Honorary Doctor of the University of Auckland1991

Hector Medal1954

Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi1944

Loder Cup1937

Fellow of the Linnean Society of London1937

About this person

Lucy May Cranwell was a New Zealand botanist responsible for groundbreaking work in palynology. Cranwell was appointed curator of botany at Auckland Museum in 1929, when she was 21 years old. As well as her work on ancient pollen samples she was responsible for encouraging a love of botany in a generation of Auckland children.

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New Zealand

In common with Lucy

Judith BinneyBoth received Fellow of Auckland War Memorial Museum Michael KingBoth received Fellow of Auckland War Memorial Museum

Scientists from New Zealand 4

Peter Schwerdtfeger37.1

Lucy Moore36.9 Harold Wellman37.2 Eliza Amy Hodgson36.8

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