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Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
About Ian Brooker
- Murray Ian Hill Brooker AM (2 June 1934 – 25 June 2016), better known as Ian Brooker, was an Australian botanist.
- He was widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus Eucalyptus.Ian Brooker was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 2 June 1934.
- He obtained a B.Ag.Sc.
- from the University of Adelaide, and a M.Sc.
- and D.Sc.
- from the Australian National University in Canberra.
- He worked with the Soil Conservation Branch of the Department of Agriculture in South Australia from 1957 to 1963; then joined the Department of Botany at the Australian National University until 1969; and then spent a year with the Western Australian Herbarium. In 1970, Brooker joined the Forest Research Institute in Canberra, now part of CSIRO.
- His research since then has specialised in the genus Eucalyptus, especially its taxonomy.
- He travelled widely throughout Australia collecting specimens, and published 100 research papers, 180 leaflets, and four books, and is the principal author of "Forest Trees of Australia". In his role as a eucalypt specialist, he travelled widely in the world, including the USA, Brazil, most European countries, southern and eastern Africa, Morocco, Israel, India, China, and New Zealand.
- In 1980/1981 he was appointed Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew in the UK. In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia.
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