Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968)

Jean Macnamara, born in 1899 at Beechworth, Victoria, and a graduate of the University of Melbourne, was a physician at the Children's Hospital Melbourne in 1922 and 1923, a consultant and medical officer to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria 1925-1931, and medical officer, Yooralla Hospital School for Crippled Children 1928-1951. During 1931-1933 she held the Rockefeller Foundation travelling scholarship, furthering her studies on poliomyelitis. While in America she learnt about the virus myxomatosis and it was largely due to her efforts that the Australian Government held field trials testing the virus as a means to eradicating Australia's rabbit problem. She was on the part-time staff of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1933-1937. As Mrs Annie Jean Connor (she married Dr Ivan Connor in 1934), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to the welfare of children in 1935, and was known as Dame Jean Macnamara.

• Connor, Annie Jean (married name, 1934 - )

Book Sections

• Smith, Ann G., 'Dame Annie Jean Macnamara (1899-1968), Medical Scientist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1986, pp. 345-347. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Upjohn, William, 'Obituary - Annie Jean Macnamara', The Medical Journal of Australia, no. 5 September, 1970, pp. 472-476. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• 'Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968), Biographical Entry', in Bright Sparcs, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001288b.htm. [ Details... ]
• Sherratt, Tim, 'No Standing Back: Dame Jean Macnamara', Australiasian Science, Summer, 1993, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_macna.htm. [ Details... ]

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 3 May 2000, http://barney.asap.unimelb.edu.au/tia/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P001288. [ Details... ]
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 'Where are the Women in Australian science?', 22 August 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. [ Details... ]
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories : brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]