Person
Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968)
DBE
Dame Annie Jean Macnamara
Details
- Born
- 1 April 1899
Beechworth, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 13 October 1968
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist
- Alternative Names
- Connor, Annie Jean
Summary
Dame Jean Macnamara (later Connor) was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-1931, and the Medical Officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-1951.
Details
Chronology
- 1922
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1922 - 1923
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1923 - 1928
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1925
- Career position - Entered private practice
- 1925
- Career position - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1925 - 1931
- Career position - Consultant in Infantile paralysis to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria
- 1928 - ?
- Career position - Honorary Medical Officer in the Physiotherapy Department at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1928 - 1951
- Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the Yooralla Hospital for Crippled Children
- 1930 - 1931
- Career position - Honorary Advisor on polio to official authorities in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
- 1931 - 1933
- Career position - Travelled to England and North America on a Rockefeller Fellowship
- 1933 - 1937
- Career position - Worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (part-time)
- 1935
- Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- 1937 - 1942
- Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
- 1946 - 1947
- Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
- 1966
- Career position - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Annie Jean Macnamara - Records, 1920 - 1968, MS 2399; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
- Evans, Joanne; McCarthy, Gavan; Stephens, Robin, Centenaries of Australian Science, Discovery and Endeavour: Celebrating Australian Science, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, AustehcWeb, Melbourne, 4 August 1999, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/cent/. Details
- 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
- Sherratt, Tim, 'No Standing Back: Dame Jean Macnamara', Australasian Science, Summer (1993), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_macna.htm. Details
Books
- Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
- Zwar, Desmond, The Dame: the life and times of Dame Jean Macnamara, medical pioneer (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1984). Details
Book Sections
- Smith, Ann G., 'Macnamara, Dame Annie Jean (1899-1968), medical scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 345-347. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100337b.htm. Details
- Smith, Ann G., 'Jean Macnamara (1899-1968) medical scientist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
Journal Articles
- Upjohn, William, 'Annie Jean Connor (née Macnamara)', Medical Journal of Australia, 1970 (2) (1970), 472-6. Details
Resources
- 'Macnamara, Jean (1899-1968)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-743084. Details
- 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1966', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899-1968), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0063b.htm. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
- French, E. L.; and Stewart, D.F., 'Lionel Bately Bull, 1889-1978', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (4) (1983), 90-110. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9830540090. Details
Digital resources
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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