Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946)

Summary

Georgina Sweet was Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1920-1924. Her research included the zoology of Australian native animals and the parasites infesting Australian stock and native fauna.

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Chronology

1896

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne

1896 - 1907

Career position - Taught in several Melbourne secondary schools

1898

Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne

1898

Award - MacBain Scholarship, University of Melbourne

1898 - 1901

Career position - Demonstrator in Biology, University of Melbourne

1901 - 1908

Career position - Lecturer in Biology at Queen's College, University of Melbourne

1904

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne

1909 - 1920?

Career position - Lecturer in Parasitology in the Veterinary School, University of Melbourne

1909 - 1920?

Career position - Lecturer and Demonstrator in Biology, University of Melbourne

1911

Award - Davis Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne

Nov 1916 - Mar 1917

Career position - Australia's first female acting Professor

1920 - 1924

Career position - Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne - the University's first female one

1921 -

Career event - Foundation Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council

1924 - 1926

Career position - Lecturer, Veterinary School, University of Melbourne (part-time)

1935

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

1937

Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

Related entries

Archival resources

Museum Victoria

• Georgina Sweet - Records, 1896 - 1930; Museum Victoria. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Georgina Sweet - Records, 1896 - 1946; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

University of Melbourne Central Registry

• Georgina Sweet - Records, 1892 - 1946; University of Melbourne Central Registry. Details

Wellcome Collection

• Victoria Eugenics Society, 1940 - 1961, SA/EUG/E.4; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. Details
• Victoria Eugenics Society, 1914 - 1939, SA/EUG/E.3; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. 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

Articles

• 'A Sweet Example', WISENET Journal, 50 (February) (1999), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/issue50/Sweet.htm. Details

Books

• Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
• Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

Book Sections

• MacCallum, Monica, 'Georgina Sweet (1875-1946) zoologist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
• MacCallum, Monica, 'Sweet, Georgina (1875-1946), zoologist, academic and philanthropist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 149-150. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120168b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Agar, W. E., 'Obituary: Dr. Georgina Sweet', Australian Journal of Science, 9 (1) (1946), 15. Details
• Anderson, Fay, 'Georgina Sweet: a Brilliant Career', Australasian Science, 21 (4) (2000), 46. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Georgina Sweet', Uni News, 12 (13) (2003), 4. Details
• Handman, Emanuela, 'Remembering Georgina Sweet', Australian Society for Parasitology newsletter, 25 (1) (2014), 6-8. Details
• Sweet, Georgina, 'Gilruth and the Melbourne University Veterinary School and the Research Institute. 1909-1912', Australian Veterinary Journal, 13 (1937), 108-110. Details
• Way, Karla; and Young, David, 'A special connection: Georgina Sweet and the Tiegs Zoology Museum', University of Melbourne collections, 23 (2018), 10-5. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/54531720. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5548301. Details
• 'Sweet, Georgina (1875-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-586434. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Sweet, Georgina (1875-1946), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0115b.htm. Details

See also

• Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
• Kelly, Farley, 'Learning and Teaching Science: Women Making Careers 1890-1920' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 35-75. Details