Geoffrey Charles Bratt
Geoffrey Charles Bratt (8 January 1931 – 16 October 1978) was an Australian chemist and
lichenologist
.
Life and career
Bratt was born in
PhD degree. He completed this in 1959 and thereafter returned to the Electrolytic Zinc Company, again as a research scientist; by the time of his death he was the Senior Principle Research Officer. He investigated methods of purification and electrodeposition of zinc, and published several patents regarding this and the purification and recovery of other metals.[1]
As a result of his lifelong interest in
West Moonah, and added many lichens to his collections from numerous bushwalking trips in Tasmania. After suffering kidney failure in 1974, he had to forgo major expeditions, but he was able to spend more time with the specimens in his herbarium, and most of his lichen publications were published after that.[1]
Memberships and awards
- member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1959[1]
- life membership of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1965[1]
- appointed Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Botany at the University of Tasmania in 1969[1]
- Hofmann Prize for extractive metallurgy in 1971 (shared with R.W. Pickering)[1]
Eponyms
Several lichen taxa have been named to honour Bratt. These include Cladonia enantia var. brattii Kantvilas (2013);[2] Menegazzia brattii Kantvilas (2012);[3] Parmelia brattii Essl. (1976);[4] Pseudocyphellaria brattii D.J.Galloway & Kantvilas (1997);[5] Rinodina brattii H.Mayrhofer (1984);[6] and Vouauxiomyces brattii S.Y.Kondr. (1996).[7]
References
- ^ S2CID 85087250.
- ^ Kantvilas, G. (2013). "A new status for Cladonia sulcata (Cladoniaceae), a common Australian lichen, with notes on the C. cariosa group in Tasmania". Kanunnah. 6: 114–125.
- S2CID 87855925.
- JSTOR 3241864.
- S2CID 85196337.
- ^ Mayrhofer, H. (1984). "The saxicolous species of Dimelaena, Rinodina and Rinodinella in Australia". Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. 79: 511–536.
- S2CID 250999825.