Person
Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899 - 1986)
DBE CBE
- Born
- 22 April 1899
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 1986
- Occupation
- Paediatrician
Summary
Kate Campbell discovered that blindness in premature babies was caused by an overdose of oxygen, resulting in the adjustment of the treatment of premature babies world-wide.
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Chronology
- 1922
- Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1924
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1924? - 1927
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Children's and Women's Hospitals
- 1926 - 1965
- Career position - Honorary Paediatrician at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne
- 1927? - 1937
- Career position - General medical practice
- 1929 - 1965
- Career position - Lecturer in Neo-Natal Paediatrics, University of Melbourne
- 1949 - 1965
- Career position - Honorary Paediatrician at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1954
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1965 - 1986?
- Career position - Consultant Paediatrician at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne
- 1966
- Education - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of Melbourne
- 1971
- Career position - Associate of the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University
- 1971
- Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- 1979
- Career position - Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
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
- Murray, James, Lifework: Heroes of Australian Health (Edgecliff, NSW: Focus Publishing for [Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd], 1997), 160 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Campbell, Kate, 'A Medical Life: an Interview with Dame Kate Campbell' in The Half-open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look at Life and Achievement, Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan, eds (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1982). Details
- Grimshaw, Patricia, 'Kate Campbell (1899-1986) paediatrician' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
- McCalman, Janet, 'Campbell, Dame Kate Isabel (1899-1986), Paediatrician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 185-186. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/campbell-dame-kate-isabel-12288. Details
Journal Articles
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Kate Isabel Campbell', Uni News, 12 (11) (2003), 4. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6375555. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92110984. Details
- 'Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899-1986)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-775072. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899-1986), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0018b.htm. Details
See also
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
- Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne eds, The Half-open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look at Life and Achievement (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1982), 344 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 15 June 2022