Person
Sayce, Edna Dorothy (1895 - 1983)
- Born
- 10 June 1895
Melrose, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 29 April 1983
- Occupation
- Physicist and Teacher
- Alternative Names
- Briggs, Edna Dorothy (married name)
Summary
Edna Sayce was a demonstrator in physics at the University of Sydney 1917-1918 and lecturer 1923. She was a lecturer at the in physics at the Sydney Teachers College 1919-1922 and later a science teacher at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney 1940-1945.
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. 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
Resources
- 'Sayce, Edna Dorothy (1895-1983)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475544. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Sayce, Edna Dorothy', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001802p.htm. Details
- 'Physics Students', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/students.htm. Details
See also
- Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 23 May 2024
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