Person

Clark, Ellen (1915 - 1988)

Born
25 March 1915
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Died
2 May 1988
Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Summary

Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia's crustacea.

She described and named many of Australia's fresh water crayfish, or yabbies and published many papers on this research.

Later, employed at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, she worked alongside (Sir) Macfarlane Burnet studying strains of influenza.

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

  • Burnet, F. M.; and Clark, Ellen, Influenza: a survey of the last 50 years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1942), 118 pp. Details

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Resources

See also

  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details

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