Joan W. Nowicke | |
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| Born | 1938  |
| Occupation | Botanist, photographer, palynologist, botanical collector |
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Joan W. Nowicke (born 1938) is an American botanist [1] from St. Louis, Missouri. She worked 27 years for the Smithsonian Institution, between 1972 and 1999, in the Department of Botany, from the National Museum of Natural History. Nowicke is a global reference as a palynologist, mainly due to her specialization in pollen morphology and its relationship with systematics, in addition to her extensive work in the area of Caryophyllales palynotaxonomy. [2] [3] She co-authored a 1984 paper entitled, "Yellow rain - a palynological analysis". [4] At the time, yellow rain was thought to be a form of toxin warfare by the Soviet Union. [5] Her paper stated that the yellow rain of South-East Asia contained a large amount of pollen leading her to gain international recognition. [4] [6]
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In 1989, botanists J.Martínez & J.A.McDonald published Nowickea , a genus of flowering plants from Mexico, belonging to the family Phytolaccaceae and named in her honour. [7]
The standard author abbreviation Nowicke is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [8]
