Person
Rountree, Phyllis Margaret (1911 - 1994)
- Born
- 1911
Hamilton, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 27 July 1994
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Bacteriologist
Summary
Phyllis Rountree worked at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, as Research Bacteriologist 1944-1961, Chief Bacteriologist 1961-1971 and after her retirement as Consultant Bacteriologist 1971-1992.
Details
Chronology
- 1930
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1931
- Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1931 - 1934
- Career position - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) fellowship at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute
- 1934 - 1935
- Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
- 1936 - 1937
- Career position - Worked at the Public Health Laboratory in London, while studying for a post-graduate Diploma in Bacteriology at the School of Hygiene in London
- 1938 - 1943
- Career position - Clinical Bacteriologist in the Bacteriology Laboratory at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1943 - 1944
- Career position - Brief war service as a food control tester for the Australian Defence Forces
- 1944 - 1961
- Career position - Research Bacteriologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1950
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
- 1961 - 1971
- Career position - Chief Bacteriologist the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1967
- Career position - Chairman of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Society for Microbiology
- 1971 - 1992
- Career position - Consultant Bacteriologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1971 - 1992
- Career position - Honorary Research Associate in Medical Microbiology at University of New South Wales
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Phyllis Margaret Rountree - Records, 1915 - 1993, MLMSS 6482; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
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
- Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Dean, Katrina, 'Rountree, Phyllis Margaret (1911-1994), microbiologist and bacteriologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 1991-1995 (A-Z), Melanie Nolan, ed. (ANU Press, 2021), pp. 735-736, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rountree-phyllis-margaret-27706. Details
- Rountree, P. M, 'The Pasteur Institute and Australia' in Louis Pasteur and the Pasteur Institute in Australia, J. Chaussivert and M. Blackman, eds (Sydney: University of New South Wales French-Australian Research Centre, 1988), pp. 9-16. Details
Journal Articles
- Dean, Katrina, 'Phyllis Rountree: a Scientist of her Generation', Australasian Science, 19 (3) (1998), 56. Details
- Rountree, P. M, 'Jean Danysz - a Forgotten Visitor to Australia', Australian Microbiologist, 9 (1988), 35-42. Details
Resources
- Guide to the Records of Phyllis Margaret Rountree, Australian Science Archives Project, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/rountree/. Details
- Phyllis Margaret Rountree Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/roun/rountree.htm. Details
- Langham, Terry, Waite Arboretum fact sheet: P. M. Rountree 1911 - 1994, Friends of Waite Arboretum, 2016. https://friendsofwaitearboretum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ROUNTREE-Phyllis-M-.pdf. Details
- 'Rountree, Phyllis M (19110113-19940726)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-565956. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Career Summary', in Guide to the Records of Phyllis Margaret Rountree, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/rountree/roun_his.htm. Details
Theses
- Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 31 October 2022