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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001596b.htm person Barnard Mildred Macfarlan AACR2 Prentice, Mildred Macfarlan 5 August 1908 9 March 2000 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Biometrician Mathematician Mildred Barnard was an assistant biometrician at CSIR Divisions of Forest Products and Animal Health 1936-1941. She resumed her career in 1956, demonstrating and later lecturing in the Mathematics Department of the University of Queensland. 1931 1931 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1932 1932 Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne 1933 1934 Career position - Tutor at Janet Clarke Hall and Trinity College, University of Melbourne 1936 1936 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University College London 1936 1941 Career position - Assistant Biometrician in the Divisions of Forest Products and Animal Health at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) 1941 1956 Career position - Some part-time lecturing, University of Melbourne and tutoring at the Women's College 1956 1970 Career position - Demonstrator in the Mathematics Department, University of Queensland 1970 1978 Career position - Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics, University of Queensland 1972 1972 Career position - First Chairwoman of the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region Prentice, Sydney Arthur (1908 - 2002)

Sydney and Mildred were husband and wife

 The University of Queensland (1910 - )

Demonstrator in Mathematics 1856 - 1970; Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics 1970 - 1978

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 'Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Journal Article: Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930 - 1940 Field, J. B. F.; Speed, F. E.; Speed, T. P.; and Williams, J. N. Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930 - 1940 1988 Australian Journal of Statistics 30 B 54-76 Book Section: Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Rasmussen, Carolyn Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 105-131 Book: 40 years, 40 women: biographies of University of Melbourne women, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the International Year of Women Flesch, Juliette 40 years, 40 women: biographies of University of Melbourne women, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the International Year of Women Carlton, Vic. University of Melbourne Library 2015