Person
Crespin, Irene (1896 - 1980)
OBE
- Born
- 12 November 1896
Kew, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 2 January 1980
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Micropalaeontologist and Geologist
Summary
Irene Crespin was Commonwealth palaeontologist from 1936. She travelled widely in Australia and to Java and Sumatra carrying out important research. Crespin collected fossils for analysis and studied rock and sediment formations. She chaired the Canberra branch of the Territories Division of the Geological Society of Australia in 1955 and was president of the Royal Society of Canberra in 1957. Both institutions granted her honorary life membership in appreciation of her work.
Details
Chronology
- 1919
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1927 - 1936
- Career position - Assistant Commonwealth Palaeontologist
- 1936 - 1961
- Career position - Commonwealth Palaeontologist
- 1953
- Award - Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal received
- 1956
- Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Clarke Medal received
- 1960
- Award - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
- 1961
- Life event - Retired
- 1962
- Award - Award of Merit received from the Commonwealth Professional Officers' Association
- 1969
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1973 - 1980
- Career position - Honorary member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
Related entries
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
Book Sections
- Bartlett, Margaret, 'Irene Crespin (1896-1980) micropalaeontologist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
- Bartlett, Margaret, 'Crespin, Irene (1896-1980), Geologist and Micropalaeontologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 13 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 532-533. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130593b.htm. Details
- Crespin, Irene, 'Chapman, Frederick (1864-1943), palaeontologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 612. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070621b.htm. Details
Edited Books
- Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Crespin, Irene, 'Recollections on the Growth of Commonwealth Interest in the Geological Sciences', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (2) (1972), 29-46. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720220029.htm. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Irene Crespin', Uni News, 11 (23) (2002), 4. Details
- Turner, S., 'Invincible but mostly Invisible: Australian Women's Contribution to Geology and Palaeontology', Geological Society Special Publication, 281 (2007), 165-202. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6068975. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/266209611. Details
- Geological Society of Australia, Australian geology hall of fame, Earth Sciences History Group, Geological Society of Australia, 2022. https://www.gsa.org.au/Public/Public/Specialist_Groups/ESHG_Sub_Pages/ESHG_Biographies.aspx?hkey=1bfc25ca-efd5-4f91-9536-dabf175139ce. Details
- 'Crespin, Irene (1896-1980)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-461523. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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