Person

Mackerras, Mabel Josephine (Josephine) (1896 - 1971)

Born
7 August 1896
Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia
Died
8 October 1971
Turner, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Parasitologist
Alternative Names
  • Bancroft, Josephine (maiden name)
  • Mackerras, Josephine (Also known as)

Summary

Josephine Mackerras worked in the Division of Economic Entomology, CSIR, Canberra, the LHQ Medical Research Unit, Cairns during World War II, and was Senior Parasitologist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research until 1961.

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Chronology

1918
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Queensland
1930 - 1940
Career position - Entomologist, CSIR
1942 - 1945
Military service - Second World War. Major, LHQ Medical Resaerch Unit
1947 - 1961
Career position - Senior Pathologist, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
1965
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1967
Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Queensland
1967 - 1971
Award - Fellow, Australian Society for Parasitology

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Archival resources

John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland

  • Mabel Josephine Mackerras - Records, 1968, OM68-20; John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland. 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

Books

  • Fuller, M. E., The insect inhabitants of carrion : a study in animal ecology (Melbourne: H. J. Green for Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1934), 62 pp, https://doi.org/10.25919/dbrb-zx18. Details
  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Alvarez, Amaya Jane, 'Invisible Workers and Invisible Barriers: Women in the CSIR in the 1930s and the 1940s' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 77-103. pages 84, 85, 87, 88, 94. Details
  • Mackerras, M. Josephine, 'Bancroft, Joseph (1836-1894), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 84-85. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bancroft-joseph-2927. Details
  • Morison, Pat, 'Jo Mackerras (1896-1971) entomologist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
  • Williams, Lesley, 'Mackerras, Ian Murray (1898-1980) and Josephine Mackerras (1896-1971), medical scientists' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 248-250. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mackerras-ian-murray-10992. Details

Edited Books

  • McKay, Judith ed., Brilliant Careers: Women Collectors and Illustrators in Queensland (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1997), 80 pp. Details
  • Pearn, John and Powell, Laurie eds, The Bancroft Tradition (Brisbane: Amphion Press, 1991), 277 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Angus, B. M.; Cannon, L. G. R.; and Adlard, R. D., 'Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature, 53 (2007), 1-156. Details
  • Currie, George, 'Obituary: Mabel Josephine Mackerras (1896-1971)', Search, 3 (3) (1972), 50. Details
  • Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 1', Medical Journal of Australia, 1978, v.2 (2 December) (1978), 560-3. Details
  • Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 2', Medical Journal of Australia, 2 (1978), 591-4. Details
  • Ford, Edward, 'Mabel Josephine Mackerras', Medical Journal of Australia, 1972 (1) (1972), 604-6. Details
  • Howie-Willis, Ian, 'Australian malariology during World War II (part 3 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology"', Journal of Military and Veteran's History, 25 (2) (2017), 46-68. Details
  • MacKerras, I. M.; and MacKerras, M. J., 'Problems of Parasitology and Entomology in Australia. Report Prepared for the Indian Ocean Science Congress', Australian Journal of Science, 15 (1953), 183-189. Details
  • Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520098. Details

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See also

  • Howie-Willis, Ian, An unending war: the Australian Army's struggle against malaria 1885 - 2015 (Newport (N.S.W.): Big Sky Publishing, 2016), 348 pp. Details
  • Spencer, Margaret, Malaria: the Australian Experience, 1843-1991 (Townsville: Australian College of Tropical Medicine, 1994), 213 pp. Details
  • Sprent, J. F. A., 'Ronald Harry Wharton 1923-83', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620293. Details

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