Name Mary Dawbarn | ||
Mary Campbell "Mollie" Dawbarn (5 January 1902 – 24 May 1982) was an Australian biochemist and nutritional physiologist.
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, MSc and DSc from the University of Adelaide. 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. 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.
During her retirement, she travelled for several years and later served as treasurer for the South Australian Ornithological Association.
Dawbarn died in Adelaide at the age of 80.