Biographical entry May, Valerie
- Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Botanist Valerie May was the first to identify the phenomenon of toxic blue-green algae and its cause.
Her first paper on the topic was published in 1966 but her findings were largely ignored until a major outbreak of the algae in the 1990s was responsible for a large amount of livestock deaths.
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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
Books
- Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004, 215 pp. Details
Rebecca Rigby
Created: 25 January 2012, Last modified: 3 October 2012