Person

Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan (1908 - 2000)

Born
5 August 1908
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
9 March 2000
Occupation
Biometrician and Mathematician
Alternative Names
  • Prentice, Mildred Macfarlan (married name)

Summary

Mildred Barnard was an assistant biometrician at CSIR Divisions of Forest Products and Animal Health 1936-1941. She resumed her career in 1956, demonstrating and later lecturing in the Mathematics Department of the University of Queensland.

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Chronology

1931
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1932
Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne
1933 - 1934
Career position - Tutor at Janet Clarke Hall and Trinity College, University of Melbourne
1936
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University College London
1936 - 1941
Career position - Assistant Biometrician in the Divisions of Forest Products and Animal Health at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
1941 - 1956
Career position - Some part-time lecturing, University of Melbourne and tutoring at the Women's College
1956 - 1970
Career position - Demonstrator in the Mathematics Department, University of Queensland
1970 - 1978
Career position - Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics, University of Queensland
1972
Career position - First Chairwoman of the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region

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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

Journal Articles

  • Field, J. B. F.; Speed, F. E.; Speed, T. P.; and Williams, J. N., 'Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930 - 1940', Australian Journal of Statistics, 30 (B) (1988), 54-76. Details

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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
  • Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 105-131. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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