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Adrienne Clarke interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian women scientists oral history project [sound recording]
- Item Title
- Adrienne Clarke interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian women scientists oral history project [sound recording]
- Repository
- National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
- Reference
- TRC 3516
- Date Range
- 18 October 1996
- Creator
- Description
2 digital audio tapes (84 minutes) and uncorrected typescript (37 leaves). Adrienne Clarke, a botanist and Professor of Botany, University of Melbourne and Chair of CSIRO, 1991-1996, speaks of how she was inspired by a school excursion from inland Queensland to the Great Barrier Reef to study biology, her major in biochemistry at University of Melbourne and later completed her doctorate there, her first lecturing position at the University of Auckland but married life and having children were more pressing and so she continued her career part-time but now has become an international expert on plant biology, her research concentrates on the molecular basis for self-incompatibility and the function in plants of arabinogalactan proteins, how they adapted in the 1980s the new science of molecular biology to the investigation of the molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility, generalised differences between the way men and women scientists approach problem-solving, the place of women in science and academia
- Formats
- Audio
- Quantity
- 2
- Access
- Written permission required for research and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
Related Archival resources
isPartOf
- Australian women scientists oral history project, 1996 - c. 2023, 1597750 [NLA bib ID]; Bhathal, Ragbir (Ragbir Singh), interviewer; Bhathal, Ragbir Singh (1936 - 2022); National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details