Person
Fenner, Ellen Margaret Bobbie (Bobbie) (1911 - 1995)
OAM
- Born
- 5 May 1911
Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, Australia - Died
- December 1995
- Occupation
- Medical scientist
- Alternative Names
- Fenner, Bobbie (Also known as)
Summary
Bobbie Fenner was an unpaid technical assistant for her husband, Frank, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. With her husband, she donated money for the Annual Frank and Bobbie Fenner Symposia on Medical Research, held at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, and for the Fenner Conferences on the Environment, held at the Australian Academy of Science.
Details
Chronology
- 1936
- Career position - Trained and worked as a Nurse in Perth and completed a certificate in Midwifery
- 1937
- Career position - Trained and worked as a Nurse in Perth and completed a certificate in Infant Welfare
- 29 December 1939 - 1 November 1945
- Career position - Served in the Middle East and then in Queensland where she worked on malaria, with the Australian Army Nursing Service
- 1946 - 1948
- Career position - Worked part-time as an unpaid Technical Assistant with her husband, Frank, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
- 1980
- Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
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
- 'Fenner, Ellen Margaret Bobbie (19110505-19941102)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476446. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018