Naomi A. H. Millard

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Naomi Adeline Helen Millard
Born
Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham

(1914-07-14)14 July 1914
Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa
Died12 June 1997(1997-06-12) (aged 82)
NationalitySouth African
Occupationbiologist

Naomi Adeline Helen Millard, née Bokenham (16 July 1914, Green Point, Cape Town – 12 June 1997) was a South African biologist, one of the founders of the Zoological Society of South Africa and the Zoologica Africana Journal.[1]

Life

Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham was on 16 July 1914 in Green Point, Cape Town.[2] She graduated the Wynberg Girls’ High School and entered the University of Cape Town in 1932, completing a master's degree in 1935.[2]

In 1938, Bokenham married Arthur Millard and later settled in Pillans Road, Rosebank, raising a son and a daughter.[2]

In 1942, Millard was awarded a Ph.D. degree, and in 1946, she was appointed to the permanent staff as a lecturer.[2]

Career

In 1951, Millard published Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, south Africa in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.[3] By 1952, she was awarded a University Fellowship for the number and quality of her scientific publications.[2] In 1958, Millard was promoted to a senior lectureship and in 1963 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.[2]

From 1961 to 1972 Millard was an Honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.[4] In 1967, Millard published a work Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.[5]

In 1971, she retired from the University and joined the staff of the South African Museum as marine biologist studying South African hydroids.[2]

In 1972-1977 Millard was a Journal Editor of Zoological Society of South Africa Executive Council.[4] Another Millard's work on hydroids was published in 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.[6] During her career she described over 100 South African taxa.[7]

In 1980, Millard was awarded the Gold Medal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.[2]

Naomi A. H. Millard died on 12 June 1997.[2]

Selected works

  • 1951 - Observations and experiments on fouling organisms in table Bay Harbour, South Africa.
  • 1967 - Hydrois from the south-west Indian Ocean. Annals of the South African Museum.
  • 1977 - Hydroids from the Kerguelen and Crozet shelves, collected by the cruise MD.03 of the Marion-Dufresne. Ann. S. Afr. Mus.

Species named after Millard

  • Gymnangium millardi Ronowicz sp. nov.[8]

References

  1. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3853152. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  3. doi:10.1080/00359195109519892
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  4. ^ a b "History and Overview". Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA). Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Reference Summary - Millard, N.A.H., 1967". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Reference Summary - Millard, N.A.H., 1977". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  7. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  8. PMID 28422958
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