Dr Winifred CurtisThe grand lady of Tasmanian botany

Awards & Achievements

Portrait by George Davis, 1987

Gintaras Kantvilas, 2005 Exhibition opening speech

• Honorary Associate Life Member, British Ecological Society (1964)
• Honorary Life Member, The Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1966)
• Clive Lord Memorial Medal, The Royal Society of Tasmania (1966)
• Australian Natural History Medallion (1976)
• Membership of the Order of Australia (1977)
• Honorary Life Member, Society for Growing Australian Plants (SGAP, now Australian Plants) (1977)
• Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Tasmania (1987)
• Society for Growing Australian Plants (SGAP, now Australian Plants) Australian Plants Award (1988)
• Winifred Curtis Prize (Plant Science, University of Tasmania) awarded for greatest proficiency in first year sciences. Established in 1990.
• The Winifred Curtis Award for excellence in Science Education in Tasmania, Science Teachers Association of Tasmania
• Winifred Curtis Entrance, Waverley Flora Park, Hobart Tasmania - Waverley Wildflower Walk  
• Mueller Award, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1995).
• Australia Day Citizen of the year, Hobart City Council (1997)
• Curtis Laboratory (Plant Science, University of Tasmania) - named in her honour (1998)
• Winifred Curtis Scamander Reserve, Scamander, Tasmania
• Her contribution to the understanding and documenting Tasmania’s Flora was highlighted in the Centenary of Federation celebrations through ‘The Peoplescape’ exhibition in Canberra (2001).
• Honorary Life Member,  The Royal Society of Tasmania (2003)
• Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women (established 2005). Awarded for her contribution to botany.
• Entry in People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
• Contribution to Science recognised in The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
• Winifred Curtis AM Dsc: a woman of our time, Famous Australian Scientists exhibition, National Gallery, Canberra (1996)
• Dr Winifred Mary Curtis - 100 years of botanical research, teaching & travelling exhibition, University of Tasmania, Morris Miller Library  (June, 2005)

Ornduffia reniformis Winifred Curtis Reserve, Scamander, Tasmania, 

Photographer Natalie Tapson 

Natalie Tapson 2011 , 'Ornduffia reniformis Winifred Curtis Reserve' flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/40325561@N04/6348795029

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