Person
White-Haney, Jean (1877 - 1953)
- Born
- 11 March 1877
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 21 October 1953
Camarillo, California, United States of America - Occupation
- Botanist
- Alternative Names
- White, Rose Ethel Janet (Also known as)
Summary
Jean White-Haney was a McBain research scholar in the Botany Department, University of Melbourne and was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1909. She was Officer-in-Charge of the Dulacca Research Station, Queensland Prickly Pear Board until 1916 and worked for CSIR 1928-1930.
Details
Chronology
- 1909
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne
- 1912 - 1916
- Career position - Officer-in-Charge, Dulacca Research tation, Queensland Prickly Pear Board
- 1926
- Career event - Elected Associate Member (Botany), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
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
- Clifford, H. Trevor, 'White-Haney, Rose Ethel Janet (1877-1953), Botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 536-537. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160638b.htm. Details
- Frawley, Jodi, 'Poison plots and prickly pear: Jean White and the Prickly Pear Experimental Station, Dulacca, 1912-1916' in Outside country: histories of inland Australia, Mayne, Alan and Atkinson, Stephen, eds (Kent Town, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 2011), pp. 43-62. Details
Journal Articles
- Neales, Tom, 'A Botanical Pioneer from the Melbourne Observatory', Botanic News (2007), 4-5. Details
- Traill, R. C., 'Obituary: Jean White-Haney', Australian Journal of Science, 17 (1) (1954), 24-25. Details
- White-Haney, J., 'Report of the officer in charge of the prickly-pear experimental station, Dulacca, up to 30th June, 1913', Queensland of Deptartment Public Lands annual report for the years 1912 & 1913, 1912/3 (Appendix IV) (1914), 1-63. Details
- White-Haney, J., 'Report of the officer in charge of the prickly-pear experimental station, Dulacca,from 1st May 1914, to 30th April, 1915', Queensland Deptartment of Public Lands annual report for the years 1914 & 1915, 1914/5 (Appendix IV) (1915). Details
- White-Haney, J., 'Report of the officer in charge of the prickly-pear experimental station, Dulacca, from 1st May 1915, to 30th June, 1916', Queensland Deptartment of Public Lands annual report for the years 1915 & 1916, 1915/6 (Appendix IV) (1916), 45. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6171680. Details
- 'White-Haney, Rose Ethel Janet (18770311-19531021)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468690. Details
See also
- Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 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
- Osmond, Barry, Neals, Tom and Stange, Gert, 'Curiosity and context revisited: crassulacean acid metabolism in the Anthropocene', Journal of Experimental Biology, 59 (2008), 1489-1502. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 20 June 2024
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