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[ The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 9 May 1885, p986 via Trove]

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Berne, Dagmar

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Education Medicine Physics Women

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Berne, Dagmar Russell, Henry Chamberlain

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University of Sydney

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Berne, Dagmar

Dagmar Berne was the first female student of medicine at Sydney University and a pioneering doctor. Confronted by prejudice, she was obliged to travel overseas to qualify. She gained world-class degrees and was feted on her return to Sydney, yet was denied access to employment in general hospitals. She established a private practice, lectured, and worked with women's organisations to progress women's health in Sydney, before tuberculosis forced her to move to Springwood, and then Trundle, where she died suddenly in 1900

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Education

Physics

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Berne, Dagmar

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First female student to study medicine in Australia, who, during her short life, pioneered women's health services in Sydney.

Russell, Henry Chamberlain

Astronomer and meteorologist who invented and made many instruments, and was the first to think comprehensively about the southern hemisphere in a global approach to meteorology.

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University of Sydney

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First proposed by William Wentworth in 1848 as an expansion of Sydney College, the university was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act in 1850 and inaugurated in 1852 before moving to Camperdown in 1859. It is the oldest university in Australia.