Person
Cohen, Fanny (1887 - 1975)
- Born
- 9 June 1887
Grafton, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 21 August 1975
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician and Educator
Summary
Fanny Cohen was a first class scholar in geology and mathematics at the University of Sydney and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. She returned to Sydney and in 1929 became headmistress of Fort Street Girls' High School.
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Fanny Cohen - Records, 1904 - 1913, ML MSS 723; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
University of Sydney, Archives
- Fanny Cohen - Records, 1910 - 1975, P 65; University of Sydney, 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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Turney, Cliff, 'Cohen, Fanny (1887-1975), headmistress' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 51-52. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-fanny-5709. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24088292. Details
- 'Cohen, Fanny (1887-1975)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462494. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 July 2006
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