Mawson, Jessica Paquita (Quita) (1917 - 2004)

Summary

Jessica Mawson was a bacteriologist who was Demonstrator in the Department of Pathology (later Bacteriology) at the University of Adelaide from 1938, where she was also assistant to Nancy Atkinson. In 1943 Mawson became Assistant Bacteriologist at the South Australian Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science. Several of her papers reported on the transmission of viral diseases. In 1944 she married Peter McEwin and they established 'Myrtle Bank', a sheep farm in the Hindmarsh Valley. Mawson was the younger daughter of Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer and Professor of Geology at the University of Adelaide.

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Chronology

1938

Career position - Member of Committee, Women's Union, University of Adelaide

1938 - 1943

Career position - Demonstrator, Department of Pathology (later Bacteriology), and assistant to Nancy Atkinson, University of Adelaide

1943 - 1945?

Career position - Assistant Bacteriologist, Institute for Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide

1945

Education - BSc, University of Adelaide

April 1949

Life event - Bush fire damages the McEwin farm, Hindmarsh Valley

1977

Life event - Participated in the first chartered flight over the South Pole

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Mawson, Jessica and Swan, Charles, 'Intranasal vaccination of humans with living attenuated influenza virus strains', Medical journal of Australia (1943), 394-9. https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1943.tb44461.x. Details
• Swan, Charles and Mawson, Jessica, 'Experimental mumps: transmission of the disease to monkeys: attempts to propagate the virus in developing hens' eggs', Medical journal of Australia (1943), 411-6. https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1943.tb44485.x. Details