Biographical entry Rubinstein, Gertrude (1918 - )

Summary

Gertrude Rubinstein undertook a science degree at the University of Melbourne, with brilliant results. After working briefly as a demonstrator in chemistry, she chose to be a fulltime mother. Later, as a result of one of her sons developing schizophrenia, she undertook research into the causes of this disease. Since the late 1970s she has assisted in the editing of an extensive series of handbooks of psychiatry for Elsevier Science. She recently published a paper, "Schizophrenia, infection and temperature: an animal model for investigating this relationship".

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1940

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1940 - 1943

Career position - Demonstrator in then Senior Demonstrator in Physical Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

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Online Resources

• 'Rabinov, Gertrude', 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/P002236p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Rubinstein Gertrude', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477227. Details