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Jeffrey, Shirley Winifred (1930 - )

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Marine scientist

Born: 4 April 1930 Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Shirley Winifred Jeffrey is one of the world's foremost authorities on microalgae and phytoplankton, crystallising and characterising the earth's predominant light-harvesting pigment, Cholorophyll c. She was acting chief of CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research, 1981-1984.

Career Highlights

After completing her PhD she returned to Australia to work at CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography. In 1963-1964 she worked at the University of California, Berkeley, as a research fellow funded by the Kaiser Foundation. Jeffrey participated in the maiden voyage of the Alpha Helix, the research vessel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, investigating pigments in microalgae that are symbiotic in tropical reef animals. Jeffrey was a principal research scientist at CSIRO's marine biochemistry unit between 1971 and 1977. From 1977 to 1981 she was a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography and then acting chief of CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research (1981-1984). In 1991 she became a chief research scientist. From 1978 to 1995 she was in charge of developing the CSIRO Algal Culture Collection, known as the Collection of Living Microalgae, and co-edited the UNESCO published Phytoplankton Pigments in Oceanography in 1996.

Chronology
1952 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1954 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1958 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at King's College London
1988 Inaugural Jubilee Award received from the Australian Marine Science Association
1991 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1993 Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
2000 American National Academy of Science (NAS) Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal awarded for research in algae
2000 Foreign Associate of the American National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

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McDougall, Trevor, Interview with Dr Shirley Jeffrey, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 27 June 2000, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/sj.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Ailie Smith
Created: 10 April 2002
Modified: 25 May 2006

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