Person

Lockett, Mary Fauriel (Fauriel) (1911 - 1982)

Born
1911
Salford, Manchester, England
Died
1982
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Pharmacologist

Summary

Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972. Prior to that she had been Head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London 1951-1962. Her research included studies on diuretics and the role of the kidney in causing oedemal dropsy in heart disease.

Details

Educated Universities of London (bachelor's degrees in medicine and science and a doctorate of medicine) and Cambridge (PhD in pharmacology).

Chronology

1937
Career position - Church Missionary Society in Egypt
1941
Career position - Junior Beit Memorial Fellow at Cambridge, UK
1945
Career position - Lecturer in Pharmacology at University College, London
1950
Career position - Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Glasgow
1951 - 1962
Career position - Head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London
1962 - 1963
Career position - Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Reader at Chelsea
1963 - 1972
Career position - Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia

Archival resources

University of Western Australia, University Archives

  • Mary Fauriel Lockett - Records, 1963 - 1972; University of Western Australia, University Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Book Sections

Resources

McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker

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