Person
Rubinstein, Gertrude (1918 - )
- Born
- 24 August 1918
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemical physicist
- Alternative Names
- Rabinov, Gertude (Also known as)
Summary
Gertrude Rubinstein undertook a science degree at the University of Melbourne, with brilliant results. After working briefly as a demonstrator in chemistry, she chose to be a fulltime mother. Later, as a result of one of her sons developing schizophrenia, she undertook research into the causes of this disease. Since the late 1970s she has assisted in the editing of an extensive series of handbooks of psychiatry for Elsevier Science. She recently published a paper, "Schizophrenia, infection and temperature: an animal model for investigating this relationship".
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Chronology
- 1940
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1940 - 1943
- Career position - Demonstrator in then Senior Demonstrator in Physical Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Related entries
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
Resources
- 'Rubinstein, Gertrude (19180824-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477227. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Rabinov, Gertrude', 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/P002236p.htm. Details
See also
- 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
Rosanne Walker
Created: 29 June 1995, Last modified: 16 May 2024