Person
Aitken, Yvonne (1911 - 2004)
AM
- Born
- 17 October 1911
Horsham, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 29 November 2004
- Occupation
- Agricultural scientist
Summary
Yvonne Aitken was a graduate of agricultural studies at the University of Melbourne who made major contributions to the science of plant breading. Her work has focused on the factors which control or influence the rate of reproductive development in common agricultural crops. Her goal, along with others in the field, was to produce a greater range of consumable crops for people and animals. This research resulted in the production of several publications including her 1974 book "Flowering, Time, Climate and Genotype". Aitken was also an avid artist, making pictorial records of her work and field explorations.
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Chronology
- 1936
- Education - Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1939
- Education - Master of Agricultural Science (MAgSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1945 - 1957
- Career position - Lecturer at the University of Melbourne
- 1955
- Career position - Study leave
- 1957 - 1974?
- Career position - Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne
- 1963
- Career position - Study leave in North America
- 1970
- Career position - Study leave in Peru, Mexico and Alaska
- 1970
- Education - Doctor of Agricultural Science (DAgSc) received from the University of Melbourne
- 1974
- Career position - Flowering, Time, Climate and Genotype, published by Melbourne University Press
- 1975 - c. 1976
- Career position - Reader in Agronomy at the University of Melbourne
- c. 1976
- Career position - Honorary Senior Associate of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne (now the Institute of Land and Food Resources)
- 1981 - 1989
- Award - Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science (FAIAS)
- 1985
- Career position - Handbook of Flowering. Vol 1 published by CRC Press
- 1989
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
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
Newspaper Articles
- Hudson, Susan, 'Young scientist searched for the big picture', The Age (2005). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29441007. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/268624092. Details
- 'Aitken, Yvonne (19111017-20041129)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476356. Details
Resource Sections
- Allen, Nessy, 'Interview with Dr Yvonne Aitken', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2001, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/a/ya.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 11 August 2016