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Carla V- Adrienne Clark

Adrienne Clark was born in Melbourne on the 6th of January in 1938. She is a Botanist. (That means plants). She went to Ruyton Girls School in Melbourne. She did science at the University Of Melbourne. When she graduated, she did postgraduate work in the United States. She was part of a Noble Peace Prize winning team. When she came back to Australia Adrienne continued Botany. She joined the staff of the University Of Melbourne. She became the director of the University's Plant Cell Biology Research Centre in 1982. In 1985 she got a Personal Chair of Botany reward. In 1986 she became Adrienne became a member of he Common Wealth Scientific and Industrial Reasearch Organisation. (CSIRO for short.) In 11991, she got chair of the CSIRO the first lady to have that reward. Adrienne promoted science education and the public way of science, and was the leader of the group to encourage ladies to do science at school. She left the CSIRO in 1996. With the experience in the administration and the manage Adrienne is proud of her work. Her rewards are Alcoa Australia, AMP Society, and Safeway. In 1997 she she was made to be Victoria's Lieutenant-Governor. She was the first lady to have that part. One day, Adrienne got really fed up with some of her work. She got a pile of science papers, and lit a lttle fire ready to burn them. Just when she was going to do it she changed her mind. If she had done this people in Australia would never have known, these important papers and information about biology, that we know now.

Some other Rewards:

AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) in 1991. Associate of National Academy of Science, United States. Compain of Australian Institute of Engineers. Fellow of Australian Academy of Science. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Member of Scientific Advisory Broard of Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland. First lady of the chair of the CSIRO. First lady lieutenanant-governor of Victoria. Alcoa Australia. AMP Society. Safeway Ltd.

//(Information from book: Great Australian Women in Science and Medecine published by, Heinemann Library by Nicholas Brasch.)// Adrienne Clarke also does books about plants, (biology.) This bit of science is important because Adrienne is the first lady to get to be the Lieutenant-Governor. Which is special. She also is a Lieutenant-Governor of Australia. She wants to encourage young ladies to that they should do science in school. She once almost ruined her papers, lucky she did not, other wise we would have missed out on this information.

If I was a scientist, I would be one about pussy cats, because they are my favourite animals, and it would be interesting to learn about them some more.