Person

Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968)

DBE

Born
1 April 1899
Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
Died
13 October 1968
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Medical scientist
Alternative Names
  • Connor, Annie Jean

Summary

Dame Jean Macnamara (later Connor) was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-1931, and the Medical Officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-1951.

Details

Chronology

1922
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1922 - 1923
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
1923 - 1928
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1925
Career position - Entered private practice
1925
Career position - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Melbourne
1925 - 1931
Career position - Consultant in Infantile paralysis to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria
1928 - ?
Career position - Honorary Medical Officer in the Physiotherapy Department at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1928 - 1951
Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the Yooralla Hospital for Crippled Children
1930 - 1931
Career position - Honorary Advisor on polio to official authorities in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
1931 - 1933
Career position - Travelled to England and North America on a Rockefeller Fellowship
1933 - 1937
Career position - Worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (part-time)
1935
Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
1937 - 1942
Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
1946 - 1947
Career position - Member of the Consultative Council for Polio
1966
Career position - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Annie Jean Macnamara - Records, 1920 - 1968, MS 2399; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Articles

Books

  • Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
  • Zwar, Desmond, The Dame: the life and times of Dame Jean Macnamara, medical pioneer (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1984). Details

Book Sections

  • Smith, Ann G., 'Macnamara, Dame Annie Jean (1899-1968), Medical Scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 345-347. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100337b.htm. Details
  • Smith, Ann G., 'Jean Macnamara (1899-1968) medical scientist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details

Journal Articles

  • Upjohn, William, 'Annie Jean Connor (née Macnamara)', Medical Journal of Australia, 1970 (2) (1970), 472-6. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
  • Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
  • French, E. L.; and Stewart, D.F., 'Lionel Bately Bull, 1889-1978', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (4) (1983), 90-110. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9830540090. Details

Digital resources

Title
Dame Annie Jean Macnamara
Type
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Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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