Nationality New Zealand | Role Chemist Name Margaret Brimble | |
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Notable awards Rutherford Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand) (2012),L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science (2007) Similar People Mildred Dresselhaus, Alan MacDiarmid, Enrico Fermi, Peter Gluckman | ||
BRNZ member Professor Margaret Brimble: Does nature have a cure for Alzheimer's?
Margaret Anne Brimble CNZM (born 1961) is a New Zealand chemist. Her research has included investigations of shellfish toxins and means to treat brain injuries.
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- BRNZ member Professor Margaret Brimble Does nature have a cure for Alzheimers
- Interview du professeur margaret brimble sur radio new zealand 8 septembre 2016
- Early life
- Scientific career
- Honours
- References
Interview du professeur margaret brimble sur radio new zealand 8 septembre 2016
Early life
Brimble was brought up in Auckland, New Zealand, and encouraged by her grandmother to value education. She attended Diocesan School for Girls.
Scientific career
She received a BSc and MSc(Hons) in chemistry from the University of Auckland. She was awarded a NZ Commonwealth scholarship to undertake a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Southampton.
She holds the Chair of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Auckland and is also a Principal Investigator in the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is also a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Brimble was the first New Zealander to receive the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, and the second woman to receive the Rutherford medal.
Honours
Brimble was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science in the 2004 New Year Honours. In the 2012 New Year Honours she was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to science.