Joan Marjorie Dingley was one of the pioneer women of New Zealand science. She worked for the DSIR Plant Diseases Division from 1941 to 1976, becoming the head of mycology. She was a major research scientist in New Zealand for both laboratory and field-based plant pathology, and for taxonomic mycology.
- Occupation
- biologist, botanist, mycologist, botanical collector
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Born
- May 14, 1916
- Died
- January 1, 2008
