Person
White, Elizabeth (1903 - 1992)
- Born
- 18 August 1903
Litchfield, England - Died
- September 1992
- Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte's Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment. She married Frederick George White in 1932 and moved with him to Canterbury in New Zealand in 1937. After that, while she worked sporadically in a medical capacity, her time was largely devoted to her family.
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Chronology
- 1929
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (BS), London School of Medicine for Women
- c. 1929 - 1931
- Career position - House Physician, Resident Pathologist and routine bacteriologist at the Royal Free Hospital
- 1931
- Education - Diploma of Public Health, London School of Medicine for Women
- c. 1931 - 1937
- Career position - Bacteriologist at the Queen Charlotte's Hospital Research Laboratories
- 1941
- Career position - Blood Bank at the Infants Hospital in Sydney
- 1945
- Career position - Demonstrator in Pathology, University of Melbourne Medical School
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
- 'White, Elizabeth (1903-1992)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475587. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 10 October 2006