Dame Patricia Rose Bergquist was a New Zealand zoologist who specialised in anatomy and taxonomy.
11 Facts About Patricia Bergquist
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Patricia Bergquist had a younger brother Norman and a sister Catherine.
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Patricia Bergquist then began studying at Auckland University College in 1950, graduating MSc with first-class honours in botany in 1956; the title of her master's thesis was Contributions to the study of the loxsomaceae.
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In 1958, she married Peter Patricia Bergquist, a noted molecular biologist, and the couple went on to have one daughter.
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Patricia Bergquist felt a stable framework of higher level classification which would permit recognition of generic relationships and facilitate descriptions of new species was missing.
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When Patricia Bergquist received a Personal Chair at the University of Auckland, she was the first woman at that university to do so.
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Patricia Bergquist co-authored 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.
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In 1979, Patricia Bergquist was conferred the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Auckland, on the basis of 28 submitted publications.
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Patricia Bergquist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1982, and in 1989 she was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Patricia Bergquist featured as one of the Royal Society Te Aparangi's "150 women in 150 words" project in 2017.
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Patricia Bergquist died of breast cancer in Auckland on 9 September 2009, aged 76.