Dame Patricia Bergquist | |
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Born | Patricia Rose Smyth 10 March 1933 |
Died | 9 September 2009 Auckland, New Zealand | (aged 76)
Alma mater | Auckland University College |
Spouse |
Peter Leonard Bergquist
(m. 1958) |
Children | 1 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Institutions | University of Auckland |
Thesis | The Demospongiae of New Zealand — systematics, distribution and relationships (1961) |
Doctoral advisors | William Roy McGregor John Morton |
Doctoral students | Michelle Kelly-Borges Jane Fromont |
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.