Patricia Bergquist

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Dame Patricia Bergquist
DBE
Born
Patricia Rose Smyth

(1933-03-10)10 March 1933
Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand
Died9 September 2009(2009-09-09) (aged 76)
Auckland, New Zealand
Alma materAuckland University College
Spouse
Peter Leonard Bergquist
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(m. 1958)​
Children1
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
Institutions
Michelle Kelly-Borges
Jane Fromont
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Dame Patricia Rose Bergquist

DBE (née Smyth, 10 March 1933 – 9 September 2009) was a New Zealand zoologist who specialised in anatomy and taxonomy. At the time of her death, she was professor emerita of zoology and honorary professor of anatomy with radiology at the University of Auckland
.

Early life, family and education

Born Patricia Rose Smyth in the Auckland suburb of Devonport on 10 March 1933, Bergquist was the daughter of William Smyth, an electrician, and Bertha Ellen (née Penny) Smyth, a homemaker. She had a younger brother Norman and a sister Catherine.[1][2]

She was educated at Devonport Primary School, and then

Porifera in 1961.[1][4] Bergquist was the first person to earn a doctoral degree in zoology from the University of Auckland.[5]

In 1958, she married Peter Bergquist, a noted molecular biologist, and the couple went on to have one daughter.[1][6]

Academic and research career

Following her doctorate, Patricia Bergquist studied overseas, initially at

marine sponge. She felt a stable framework of higher level classification which would permit recognition of generic relationships and facilitate descriptions of new species was missing.[1] When Bergquist received a Personal Chair at the University of Auckland, she was the first woman at that university to do so.[7]

She co-authored (with Mary E. Sinclair) The Morphology and Behaviour of Larvae of Some Intertidal Sponges for the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, which was published on 20 October 1967.

Bergquist's notable students include Michelle Kelly-Borges and Jane Fromont.[8][9]

In 1979, Bergquist was conferred the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Auckland, on the basis of 28 submitted publications.[10][11]

Honours and awards

Bergquist was elected a

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science, in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours.[6][14]

Legacy

Numerous sponges have been named in her honour, e.g, Xestospongia bergquistia Fromont, 1991, Tethya bergquistae Hooper, 1994,[15] Acarnus bergquistae Van Soest, Hooper & Hiemstra, 1991,[16] Plakortis bergquistae Muricy, 2011,[17] and Phyllospongia bergquistae Wahab & Fromont, 2020.[18]

Bergquist featured as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words" project in 2017.[5]

See also

Death

Patricia Bergquist died of breast cancer in Auckland on 9 September 2009, aged 76.[1][19]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Nicholson, Louise F.B. "Patricia Rose Bergquist (1933–2009)". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Births". Auckland Star. 13 March 1933. p. 1. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  3. ^ Smyth, Patricia Rose (1956). "Contributions to the study of the loxsomaceae". Auckland University College. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
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  5. ^ a b "Patricia Bergquist". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Peter Bergquist". Office of the Governor-General. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  7. ^ "ATL: Unpublished Collections". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  8. hdl:2292/1994
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  9. Wikidata Q111050301
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    ISBN 0-908578-34-2
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  11. ^ Bergquist, Patricia R. (1979). "Publications submitted for the degree of D.Sc". University of Auckland. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  12. ^ "List of all Fellows with surnames A–C". Royal Society of New Zealand. 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  13. ^ "No. 53528". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1993. p. 33.
  14. ^ "Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee honours list 2012". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  15. ^ Atlas of Living Australia. "Species: Tethya bergquistae". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  16. ^ Atlas of Living Australia. "Species: Acarnus bergquistae". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  17. ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Plakortis bergquistae". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  18. Wikidata Q110667756
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  19. ^ "Patricia Bergquist death notice". The New Zealand Herald. 11 September 2009.
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