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Mavis Freeman (scientist)
Australian bacteriologist and biochemist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mavis Louisa Freeman (30 January 1907 – 1992) was an Australian bacteriologist and biochemist. She assisted Macfarlane Burnet in identifying the source of Q fever.
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Early life and education
Mavis Louisa Freeman was born in Ballarat, Victoria on 30 January 1907 to Louisa (née Lutzen) and Harry Stanley Freeman.[1] She completed her primary education at Esperance Girls' School, Brighton where she was dux of classes III and IV.[2][3] She then attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School where she was dux of the school in 1924.[4] On leaving school she won a scholarship to Trinity College[5] at the University of Melbourne from which she graduated with a BSc in 1928.[6]
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Career
Freeman's first job was at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute where she was employed as a research fellow. Her work included studying snake venoms with Charles Kellaway and proteins with biochemist H. F. Holden.[7]
In 1934 she won the Victorian Women Graduates' Association Travelling Scholarship and went to London to continue her studies at the Lister Institute.[8] She returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and, in 1939, assisted Macfarlane Burnet in the discovery of the source of Q fever.[9]
In World War II she was appointed as pathologist to the Second Australian Hospital, A.I.F. in Palestine and was the only woman to serve overseas, other than nurses and masseuses.[10][11]
Freeman returned to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute after the war but resigned in 1948 and moved to Adelaide to work at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Research.[12] She completed an MSc at the University of Melbourne in 1950.[13][14]
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