Person
Lockett, Mary Fauriel (Fauriel) (1911 - 1982)
- Born
- 1911
Salford, Manchester, England - Died
- 1982
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Pharmacologist
Summary
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972. Prior to that she had been Head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London 1951-1962. Her research included studies on diuretics and the role of the kidney in causing oedemal dropsy in heart disease.
Details
Educated Universities of London (bachelor's degrees in medicine and science and a doctorate of medicine) and Cambridge (PhD in pharmacology).
Chronology
- 1937
- Career position - Church Missionary Society in Egypt
- 1941
- Career position - Junior Beit Memorial Fellow at Cambridge, UK
- 1945
- Career position - Lecturer in Pharmacology at University College, London
- 1950
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Glasgow
- 1951 - 1962
- Career position - Head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London
- 1962 - 1963
- Career position - Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham and Honorary Reader at Chelsea
- 1963 - 1972
- Career position - Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology, University of Western Australia
Archival resources
University of Western Australia, University Archives
- Mary Fauriel Lockett - Records, 1963 - 1972; University of Western Australia, University Archives. 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
Book Sections
- Birman, Wendy, 'Lockett, Mary Fauriel (1911-1982), Pharmacologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), p. 40. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lockett-mary-fauriel-mary-14052. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536606. Details
- 'Lockett, Mary Fauriel (19110317-19820105)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476436. Details
McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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