Mavis Freeman | |
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Born | Mavis Louisa Freeman 30 January 1907
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
Died | 1992 (aged 84–85)
Malvern, Victoria, Australia |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Awards | Victorian Women Graduates' Association Travelling Fellowship, 1934 |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Second Australian Military Hospital, Palestine |
Mavis Louisa Freeman (30 January 1907 – 1992) was an Australian bacteriologist and biochemist. She assisted Macfarlane Burnet in identifying the source of Q fever.
Mavis Louisa Freeman was born in Ballarat, Victoria on 30 January 1907 to Louisa (née Lutzen) and Harry Stanley Freeman. [1] She completed her primary education at Esperance Girls' School, Brighton where she was dux of classes III and IV. [2] [3] She then attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School where she was dux of the school in 1924. [4] On leaving school she won a scholarship to Trinity College [5] at the University of Melbourne from which she graduated with a BSc in 1928. [6]
Freeman's first job was at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute where she was employed as a research fellow. Her work included studying snake venoms with Charles Kellaway and proteins with biochemist H. F. Holden. [7]
In 1934 she won the Victorian Women Graduates' Association Travelling Scholarship and went to London to continue her studies at the Lister Institute. [8] She returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and, in 1939, assisted Macfarlane Burnet in the discovery of the source of Q fever. [9]
In World War II she was appointed as pathologist to the Second Australian Hospital, A.I.F. in Palestine and was the only woman to serve overseas, other than nurses and masseuses. [10] [11]
Freeman returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute after the war but resigned in 1948 and moved to Adelaide to work at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Research. [12] She completed an MSc at the University of Melbourne in 1950. [13] [14]
Freeman died in Malvern, Victoria in 1992. [1]
Mavis Freeman | |
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Born | Mavis Louisa Freeman 30 January 1907
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
Died | 1992 (aged 84–85)
Malvern, Victoria, Australia |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Awards | Victorian Women Graduates' Association Travelling Fellowship, 1934 |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Second Australian Military Hospital, Palestine |
Mavis Louisa Freeman (30 January 1907 – 1992) was an Australian bacteriologist and biochemist. She assisted Macfarlane Burnet in identifying the source of Q fever.
Mavis Louisa Freeman was born in Ballarat, Victoria on 30 January 1907 to Louisa (née Lutzen) and Harry Stanley Freeman. [1] She completed her primary education at Esperance Girls' School, Brighton where she was dux of classes III and IV. [2] [3] She then attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School where she was dux of the school in 1924. [4] On leaving school she won a scholarship to Trinity College [5] at the University of Melbourne from which she graduated with a BSc in 1928. [6]
Freeman's first job was at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute where she was employed as a research fellow. Her work included studying snake venoms with Charles Kellaway and proteins with biochemist H. F. Holden. [7]
In 1934 she won the Victorian Women Graduates' Association Travelling Scholarship and went to London to continue her studies at the Lister Institute. [8] She returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and, in 1939, assisted Macfarlane Burnet in the discovery of the source of Q fever. [9]
In World War II she was appointed as pathologist to the Second Australian Hospital, A.I.F. in Palestine and was the only woman to serve overseas, other than nurses and masseuses. [10] [11]
Freeman returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute after the war but resigned in 1948 and moved to Adelaide to work at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Research. [12] She completed an MSc at the University of Melbourne in 1950. [13] [14]
Freeman died in Malvern, Victoria in 1992. [1]