Mary Campbell Dawbarn
{{short description|Australian biochemist and nutritional physiologist}}
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|name = Mary Campbell (Mollie) Dawbarn
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|caption = Dawbarn in 1933
|birth_date = {{birth-date|5 January 1902}}
|birth_place = Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
|death_date = {{death-date and age|24 May 1982|5 January 1902}}
|death_place = Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
|alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Adelaide|Methodist Ladies College, Adelaide}}
|known_for = Influential research on the B complex vitamins.
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Mary Campbell "Mollie" Dawbarn (5 January 1902 – 24 May 1982) was an Australian biochemist and nutritional physiologist.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003384b.htm |title=Dawbarn, Mary Campbell (1902–1982) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Australian Science}} She is particularly well known for her research on B complex vitamins. Producing an assay for vitamin b12 and perfecting the methods for estimating B1 vitamin in bread are among her most notable works.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dawbarn-mary-campbell-mollie-12409 |title=Dawbarn, Mary Campbell (Mollie) (1902–1982) |chapter=Mary Campbell (Mollie) Dawbarn (1902–1982) |encyclopedia=Australian Dictionary of Biography}}
Early life and education
The daughter of Gilbert Joseph Dawbarn and Mary Isabella Macdonald, she was born in Ballarat and moved to South Australia in 1907. Dawbarn won a scholarship to the Methodist Ladies College in Adelaide. She earned a BSc and a MSc from the University of Adelaide in 1923 and 1928 respectively. She achieved her DSc from the same university in 1958.
Career
She began work in 1924 as a biochemistry demonstrator at the university. In 1927, she became a research chemist for the Animal Products Research Foundation, University of Adelaide. While on study leave from 1933 to 1934, she worked at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and the University of Strasbourg in France. During World War II, she conducted research for the Australian armed forces into nutritional requirements. In 1954, she was named principal research officer for the Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. She retired in 1963.
Later life
During her retirement, she traveled for several years and later served as treasurer for the South Australian Ornithological Association. She was very interested in photography and was an expert photographer herself. She produced black-and-white enlargements by herself. She was also member of Adelaide Lyceum and Soroptimist club.
Dawbarn died in Adelaide at the age of 80. After her death, her body was cremated.
Publications
- {{cite thesis |last= Dawbarn |first= Mary Campbell|date= 1958|title= Vitamin B12 and folic acid in the sheep, and other papers |type=D.Sc |publisher=University of Adelaide |hdl= 2440/38498}}
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Category:Australian biochemists
Category:Australian women chemists
Category:University of Adelaide alumni
Category:20th-century Australian women scientists