Adrienne Clarke interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal for the Australian women scientists oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1318227
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Clarke, A. E. (Adrienne Elizabeth), 1938-, interviewee
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- Written permission required for research and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1996 Oct. 18
- 2 digital audio tapes (84 min.)
- Series:
- Australian women scientists oral history project.
- Summary:
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Adrienne Clarke, a botanist and Professor of Botany, University of Melbourne and Chair of CSIRO, 1991-1996, speaks of how she was inspired by a school excursion from inland Queensland to the Great Barrier Reef to study biology, her major in biochemistry at University of Melbourne and later completed her doctorate there, her first lecturing position at the University of Auckland but married life and having children were more pressing and so she continued her career part-time but now has become an international expert on plant biology, her research concentrates on the molecular basis for self-incompatibility and the function in plants of arabinogalactan proteins, how they adapted in the 1980s the new science of molecular biology to the investigation of the molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility, generalised differences between the way men and women scientists approach problem-solving, the place of women in science and academia.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Oct. 18, 1996.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 37 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Botanists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bhathal, Ragbir (Ragbir Singh), interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian women scientists oral history project.
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