Person
Lush, Dora Mary (1910 - 1943)
- Born
- 31 July 1910
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 20 May 1943
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Bacteriologist
Summary
Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, where she worked closely with Macfarlane Burnet. After a period of time in England Lush returned to the Institute in 1942. On 27 April 1943, while working on a vaccine for scrub typhus, Lush accidentally pricked her finger while inoculating a mouse. She died of the disease three weeks later.
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Chronology
- 1932
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1934
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1934 - 1939
- Career position - Bacteriological Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- 1939 - 1942
- Career position - Researcher at the National Institute for Medical Research, London
- 1942 - 1943
- Career position - Bacteriological Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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
Book Sections
- Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Lush, Dora Mary (1910-1943), Bacteriologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 137-138. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150169b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Miss Dora Lush, MSc', Australian Journal of Science, 5 (6) (1943), 193-194. Details
- Sankaran, N., 'Mutant Bacteriophages, Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Changing Nature of 'Genespeak' in the 1930s', Journal of the History of Biology, 43 (2010), 571-599. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17425279. Details
- 'Lush, Dora Mary (19100731-19430520)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469950. Details
See also
- Burnet, Macfarlane, Sir, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1915-1965 (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1971), 193 pp. Details
- Fenner, F., 'Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 39-77. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710039. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 25 March 2003, Last modified: 1 August 2007