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 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.
Details
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
Related entries
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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 regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
Book Sections
- 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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030084b.htm. 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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150290b.htm. 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
Resources
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/33970996. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6721461. Details
- CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B883, NX137899', B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=5629517. Details
- 'Mackerras, Mabel Josephine (1896-1971)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-762081. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DSc, 1967 [Citation provided]', Honorary awards recipients, University of Queensland, 2023, https://alumni.uq.edu.au/awards/honorary-awards-previous-recipients. Details
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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 18 October 2022
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