Person
Cahn, Audrey Josephine (1905 - 2008)
- Born
- 17 October 1905
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 1 April 2008
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Dietician and Nutritionist
- Alternative Names
- Osborne, Audrey Josephine (maiden name)
Summary
Audrey Cahn was born in the "Cloisters", later known as the Law Quadrangle, at the University of Melbourne. Her father, William Osborne, was Chair of Physiology, Biochemistry and Histology at the university. In 1929 she completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) at the University of Melbourne, returning in 1937 to undertake a Diploma in Dietetics. Cahn returned to the university yet again, in 1947, when she commenced a 21 year career lecturing in dietetics.
Details
Extract from Obituaries Australia: "Earlier, in 1936, she was a founding member of the Dietetics Association, which lobbied the Victorian Government to adopt a registration procedure that was needed, she argued, to stop "quacks" from taking over the field. At about this time, her father, Professor Osborne, set up a diploma of dietetics at Melbourne University."
Chronology
- 1929
- Career position - Worked as a Microbiologist and food analyst with Kraft
- 1929
- Education - Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc), University of Melbourne
- 1930s
- Education - Trained at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne and gained Hospital Certificate of Dietetics
- c. 1935 - c. 1940
- Various positions including Chief Dietician at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, the Victorian Mental Hygiene Department and at the Royal Perth Hospital
- 1937
- Education - Diploma in Dietetics, University of Melbourne
- c. 1940 - c. 1945
- Career position - Joined the Army and was Chief Dietician at the Heidelberg Military Hospital
- 1947 - 1959
- Career position - Lecturer in Dietetics, University of Melbourne
- 1959 - 1968
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Applied Dietetics, University of Melbourne
- 1968
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
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
Articles
- Tilley, Leann, 'Audrey Cahn: a nonagenarian scientist remembers the early days', WISENET Journal, 49 (November) (1998), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/issue49/cahn.htm. Details
Books
- Cahn, Audrey, University Children (Warrandyte, Victoria: privately published, 1987), 66 pp. Details
- Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Tilley, Leann and Stone, Bruce, 'A scientist ahead of her times', The Age (2008). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22003538. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93622256. Details
- 'Cahn, Audrey', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-576883. Details
Resource Sections
- Tilley, Leann; Stone, Bruce, 'Audrey Josephine Cahn, (1905-2008)', in Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 2023. https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cahn-audrey-josephine-13608/text24357. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 26 March 2003, Last modified: 31 July 2023