Person
Clark, Ellen (1915 - 1988)
- Born
- 25 March 1915
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- 2 May 1988
Santa Clara, California, United States of America
Summary
Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia's crustacea.
She described and named many of Australia's fresh water crayfish, or yabbies and published many papers on this research.
Later, employed at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, she worked alongside (Sir) Macfarlane Burnet studying strains of influenza.
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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
Books
- Burnet, F. M.; and Clark, Ellen, Influenza: a survey of the last 50 years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1942), 118 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Carey, Jane, 'Clark, Ellen (1915-1988), Naturalist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), p. 220. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clark-ellen-12323. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537300. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/291482082. Details
- 'Clark, Ellen (19150325-19880502)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464425. Details
See also
- Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
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Created: 5 January 2012, Last modified: 3 October 2012