Person
Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan (1908 - 2000)
- Born
- 5 August 1908
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 9 March 2000
- Occupation
- Biometrician and Mathematician
- Alternative Names
- Prentice, Mildred Macfarlan (married name)
Summary
Mildred Barnard was an assistant biometrician at CSIR Divisions of Forest Products and Animal Health 1936-1941. She resumed her career in 1956, demonstrating and later lecturing in the Mathematics Department of the University of Queensland.
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Chronology
- 1931
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1932
- Education - Master of Arts (MA) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1933 - 1934
- Career position - Tutor at Janet Clarke Hall and Trinity College at the University of Melbourne
- 1936
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at University College London
- 1936 - 1941
- Career position - Assistant Biometrician in the Divisions of Forest Products and Animal Health at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
- 1941 - 1956
- Career position - Some part-time lecturing at the University of Melbourne and tutoring at the Women's College
- 1956 - 1970
- Career position - Demonstrator in the Mathematics Department at the University of Queensland
- 1970 - 1978
- Career position - Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Queensland
- 1972
- Career position - First Chairwoman of the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region
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
Journal Articles
- Field, J. B. F.; Speed, F. E.; Speed, T. P.; and Williams, J. N., 'Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930 - 1940', Australian Journal of Statistics, 30 (B) (1988), 54-76. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37922330. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92725203. Details
- 'Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan (1908-20001231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475551. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001596p.htm. Details
See also
- Flesch, Juliette, 40 years, 40 women: biographies of University of Melbourne women, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the International Year of Women (Carlton, Vic.: University of Melbourne Library, 2015), 88 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 28 February 2018
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