Person

Dawbarn, Mary Campbell (1902 - 1982)

Born
5 January 1902
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died
24 May 1982
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Biochemist and Nutritional physiologist

Summary

Mary Dawbarn was a biochemist and nutritional physiologist. Dawbarn worked under biochemist Hedley Marston at the CSIR's division of Animal Nutrition from 1923 until 1954 when she transferred to the CSIRO's Division of Biochemistry and Nutrition. Dawbarn undertook influential research on the B complex vitamins.

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Chronology

1924 - 1926
Career position - Demonstrator in Biochemistry, University of Adelaide
1927 - 1954?
Career position - Research Chemist at the Animal Products Research Foundation, University of Adelaide
1954 - 1963
Career position - Principal Research Officer of the Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
1963
Life event - Retired

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

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Journal Articles

  • Dawbarn, M. C., 'Thorburn Brailsford Robertson bibliography', Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science, 9 (1) (1932), 7-21. Details

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See also

  • Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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