Person
Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898 - 1975)
- Born
- 15 February 1898
North Carlton, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 21 August 1975
Centennial Park, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Palaeontologist and Geologist
Summary
Kathleen Sherrard took an active role in a number of women's organisations particularly women graduates and scientific workers and published a number of articles on palaeontology.
Details
Chronology
- 1918
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1920 - 1928
- Career position - Honorary Secretary, Victorian Women Graduates Association
- 1921
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1927
- Career position - Worked on crystallography under Professor Arthur Hutchinson at the mineralogical laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1928 - 1938
- Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australian Federation of University Women
- 1939
- Career position - Helped establish the Australian Association of Scientific Workers
- 1950
- Career position - Worked with Dr Gertrude Elles in the Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1967
- Career position - Studied fossil collections in Peking (Beijing), China
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Kathleen Margaret Maria Sherrard - Records, 1918 - 1975, ML MSS 2950; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. 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
Books
- Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Grahame, Rachel, 'Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898-1975), Geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 233-234. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160276b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Turner, S., 'Invincible but mostly Invisible: Australian Women's Contribution to Geology and Palaeontology', Geological Society Special Publication, 281 (2007), 165-202. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536064. Details
- 'Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898-1975)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462791. Details
See also
- Flesch, Juliette, 40 years, 40 women: biographies of University of Melbourne women, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the International Year of Women (Carlton, Vic.: University of Melbourne Library, 2015), 88 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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