P002739
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Person
created
1997-06-30
human
Rosanne Walker
updated
2025-10-29
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002739b.htm
person
White
Elizabeth
AACR2
18 August 1903
September 1992
Place of Birth
Litchfield, England
Physician
Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte's Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment. She married Frederick George White in 1932 and moved with him to Canterbury in New Zealand in 1937. After that, while she worked sporadically in a medical capacity, her time was largely devoted to her family.
1929
1929
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (BS), London School of Medicine for Women
c. 1929
1931
Career position - House Physician, Resident Pathologist and routine bacteriologist at the Royal Free Hospital
1931
1931
Education - Diploma of Public Health, London School of Medicine for Women
c. 1931
1937
Career position - Bacteriologist at the Queen Charlotte's Hospital Research Laboratories
1941
1941
Career position - Blood Bank at the Infants Hospital in Sydney
1945
1945
Career position - Demonstrator in Pathology, University of Melbourne Medical School
White, Elizabeth (1903-1992)
Trove
'White, Elizabeth', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
White, Elizabeth
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation