Kathleen Dixon Gordon-Gray (nee Huntley) - Kath Obituary

摘要

Kathleen Dixon Gordon-Gray (née Huntley) was born on 24th January, 1918 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and died there on 13th January, 2012. She was educated at the Girls' High School and the Natal University College of the University of South Africa, Pietermaritzburg which in 1949, together with the later-established Durban campuses of NUC became the University of Natal. For her Bachelor's degree in 1937 she offered Botany and Chemistry as major subjects, with Physics and Zoology as ancillaries. Childhood visits to an aunt, who lived on a farm in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains had kindled her life-long interest in plants. In 1939 she was awarded a M.Sc. degree in Botany, followed in 1959 by a Ph.D.