Biographical entry White, Elizabeth (1903 - 1992)

Summary

Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte's Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment. She married Frederick George White in 1932 and moved with him to Canterbury in New Zealand in 1937. After that, while she worked sporadically in a medical capacity, her time was largely devoted to her family.

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1929

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the London School of Medicine for Women

c. 1929 - 1931

Career position - House Physician, Resident Pathologist and routine bacteriologist at the Royal Free Hospital

1931

Education - Diploma of Public Health completed at the London School of Medicine for Women

c. 1931 - 1937

Career position - Bacteriologist at the Queen Charlotte's Hospital Research Laboratories

1941

Career position - Blood Bank at the Infants Hospital in Sydney

1945

Career position - Demonstrator in Pathology at the University of Melbourne Medical School

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Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'White, Elizabeth', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475587. Details