Australian Dictionary of Biography

20 June, 1923
North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

15 December, 1994 (aged 71)
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

cancer (not specified)

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• Ward, John Frederick (teacher)

• Prince Alfred College (Adelaide) (student, 1936-1940)
• University of Adelaide (student, 1949-1956)

• sailor (1940-1943) Federal, Australia
• navy officer (1943-1948) Federal, Australia
• academic (1953-1994) South Australia, Australia
• botanist (1953-1994) South Australia, Australia
• geneticist (1956-1994) South Australia, Australia

• World War II (naval officer)

• John Bagot scholarship (University of Adelaide) (recipient, 1949)
• Gowrie Scholarship Trust Fund award (recipient, 1950)
• Elsie Marion Cornish prize (University of Adelaide) (recipient, 1951)
• Ernest Ayers scholarship (University of Adelaide) (recipient, 1951)
• William Culross prize (University of Adelaide) (recipient, 1955)
• Nuffield Fellowship (recipient, 1958)

• Nature Conservation Society of South Australia (member)

• University of Adelaide (botany) (academic, 1956-1984)