Patricia Mather (née Kott) AO (12 December 1925 – 4 January 2012) was an Australian zoologist and taxonomist known for her research into sea squirts.
She has published (under her maiden name, Patricia Kott) more than 150 papers including a major monograph on the "Australian Ascidiacea" (in four parts between 1985 and 2001).
[2] She received an early introduction into marine science during holiday jobs sorting plankton at the CSIR (later to become the CSIRO) Fisheries Division.
first-class honours degree[4] she was appointed plankton officer in the Fisheries Division at Cronulla, New South Wales.
)[8] Waldo Schmitt from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., asked her to write a monograph on Antarctic ascidiacea located in the American national collections in the mid-1960s.