Biographical entry Fenner, Ellen Margaret Bobbie (Bobbie) (1911 - 1995)

Summary

Ellen Margaret B. (Bobbie) Fenner was an unpaid technical assistant for her husband, Frank, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. With her husband, she donated money for the Annual Frank and Bobbie Fenner Symposia on Medical Research, held at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, and for the Fenner Conferences on the Environment, held at the Australian Academy of Science.

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1936

Career position - Trained and worked as a Nurse in Perth and completed a certificate in Midwifery

1937

Career position - Trained and worked as a Nurse in Perth and completed a certificate in Infant Welfare

29 December 1939 - 1 November 1945

Career position - Served in the Middle East and then in Queensland where she worked on malaria, with the Australian Army Nursing Service

1946 - 1948

Career position - Worked part-time as an unpaid Technical Assistant with her husband, Frank, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

1980

Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) received

Related entries

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Online Resources

• 'Fenner Ellen Margaret Bobbie (19110505-19951231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476446. Details