Beryl Splatt

Last updated

Beryl Splatt
Born1902
Perth, Australia
Died1982
St Kilda, Australia
Occupation Biochemist
Parent(s)Maud Rebecca Pickering and William James Splatt

Beryl Audrey Pickering Splatt MBE (1902-1982) was an Australian biochemist. She was born in 1902 in Perth, Australia. Her parents, Maud Rebecca Pickering from Victoria and William James Splatt from Perth, had married in July 1898 in Perth.

Contents

Perhaps her interest in science was imparted by her father, a partner in the Electrical Engineers and Contractors, Splatt. Wall, and Co. [1] In any event, Splatt graduated with an MSc from the University of Melbourne and was a member of the Victorian Women Graduates Association. [2] Following postgraduate work at Middlesex Hospital, London, which she undertook on a Carnegie Grant, Beryl Splatt returned to Melbourne. She worked as a biochemist and metabolist at Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1923 to 1964 and also as a clinical biochemistry demonstrator at the University of Melbourne (1940 - 1961). During this time she was also a committee member of the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service and a member of the Royal Melbourne Clinical School. Splatt was the inaugural President of the Association of Hospital Scientists of Victoria. [3]

She died in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia in 1982.

Published works

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

On 1 January 1965, Splatt was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE - Civil) in recognition of her work in the Biochemistry Department of Melbourne Hospital. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences</span>

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is the largest faculty of University of Melbourne, with the most post-graduate students, and also hosts the most school departments and centres of all University of Melbourne Faculties, consisting of 52 faculty sub-organisations. In 2021, Melbourne Medical School was ranked 25th in the world and second in Australia in the 2021 QS Subject Rankings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Gottschalk (biochemist)</span> German biochemist

Alfred Gottschalk was a German biochemist who was a leading authority in glycoprotein research. During his career he wrote 216 research papers and reviews, and four

Suzanne Cory is an Australian molecular biologist. She has worked on the genetics of the immune system and cancer and has lobbied her country to invest in science. She is married to fellow scientist Jerry Adams, also a WEHI scientist, whom she met while studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge, England.

Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell KBE, was an Australian medical doctor and the President of the Victorian branch of the British Medical Association.

The Melbourne Dental School is one of the graduate schools of the University of Melbourne. In addition to the 4-year graduate dental program the Doctor of Dental Surgery, the school offers specialty training programs combined with the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry degree, advanced training programs, and research degrees including M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs. According to the QS World Rankings, it is the highest ranking dental school in Australia and often ranks among the top 25 in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Otto Folin</span> Swedish-born American chemist

Otto Knut Olof Folin was a Swedish-born American chemist who is best known for his groundbreaking work at Harvard University on practical micromethods for the determination of the constituents of protein-free blood filtrates and the discovery of creatine phosphate in muscles.

The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, commonly known as the Baker Institute, is an Australian independent medical research institute headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. Established in 1926, the institute is one of Australia's oldest medical research organisations with a historical focus on cardiovascular disease. In 2008, it became the country's first medical research institute to target diabetes, heart disease, obesity and their complications at the basic, clinical and population health levels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Isabel Campbell</span>

Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, DBE, FRCOG was a noted Australian physician and paediatrician. Campbell's discovery, that blindness in premature babies was caused by high concentrations of oxygen, resulted in the alteration of the treatment of premature babies world-wide and for this she received global recognition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait</span> English biochemist and endocrinologist

Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait was an English biochemist and endocrinologist. She worked with her second husband, James Francis Tait, from 1948 until her death in 2003, a partnership described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "one of the most successful examples of husband-wife scientific collaboration". Together, they discovered and identified the hormone aldosterone, the last of a series of naturally occurring biologically potent steroid hormones to be isolated and identified between the 1920s to the 1950s, after the androgens, oestrogens, and glucocorticoid hormones. Aldosterone is part of the mechanism that regulates blood pressure, and causes conservation of sodium, secretion of potassium, increased water retention, and increased blood pressure. It is thought to be responsible for 15 per cent of cases of high blood pressure.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jane Stocks Greig</span> Australian physician (1872–1939)

Jane Stocks "Jean" Greig was a Scottish-Australian medical doctor and public health specialist.

Vicki Anderson is an Australian clinical neuropsychologist and researcher. Since 2002 she has been the Theme Director of the Critical Care and Neurosciences group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and she established the Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies at the Royal Children's Hospital.

Margaret Sabine (1928–2011) was the pioneering virologist for Australian veterinary schools. She conducted studies on viruses in cats and horses, with her characterisation of different equine viruses being her most significant scientific contribution. Other achievements include becoming head of the department of veterinary pathology and bacteriology, being chairwoman of the NSW Animal Welfare Advisory Council, an honorary Veterinary Science degree at the University of Sydney, and being a co-discoverer of viral interference.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leslie Lazarus</span> Australian endocrinologist

Leslie "Les" Lazarus was an Australian endocrinologist who was one of the first co-Directors of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney from 1966 to 1969 and sole Director from 1969 to 1990. At the Garvan Institute he led a joint laboratory and clinical research team studying diabetes and pituitary hormone secretions, in particular the secretion and clinical uses of human growth hormone.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Audrey Cahn</span> Australian microbiologist and nutritionist

Audrey Josephine Cahn was an Australian microbiologist and nutritionist.

Lucy Meredith Bryce was an Australian haematologist and medical researcher, who worked with the Australian Red Cross Society to establish the first blood transfusion service in Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Klinken</span> Australian medical researcher and Chief Scientist of Western Australia

Svend Peter Klinken is an Australian medical researcher and academic. He is currently the Chief Scientist of Western Australia. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the June 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Judith Ann Whitworth is an Australian medical researcher in the areas of kidney function and blood pressure. Now an emeritus professor, she is the former director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU).

Walter Ramsden was a British biochemist and physiologist. He discovered the phenomenon now known as Pickering stabilization in 1903, before the effect was independently rediscovered by Spencer U. Pickering in 1907.

Charles Nicholas "Nick" Hales was an English physician, biochemist, diabetologist, pathologist, and professor of clinical biochemistry

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marjorie Bick</span> Australian woman biochemist

Marjorie Elizabeth Dulcie Bick was an Australian biochemist.

References

  1. "Electric Elevators". The Daily News. 23 August 1905.
  2. "Women Graduates Bid Farewell to Their President". Argus. 4 September 1937. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  3. "Biographical Entry". Encyclopaedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  4. "Splatt, Beryl Audrey Pickering".