Dr Isabel Joy Bear

Australia, 2008

Film
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Isabel Joy Bear began her extensive career in science in the 1940s and today is an Honorary Fellow with CSIRO Minerals. In the 1960s Bear discovered a number of previously unknown metastable zirconium sulfate hydrates. Joy was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1986 for services to science, particularly in the field of mineral chemistry. She is a fellow of both the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and in 1988 became the first woman to receive the Leighton Medal - the RACI’s premier award.

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Credits

producer

Helen Simondson

Lisetta Moscardo

production company

ACMI

Duration

00:08:06:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
2008

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Group of items

100 Years of Victorian women's right to vote

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B2001433

Language

English

Audience classification

Mediatheque - all ages (ACMI classified)

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

MOV file H264; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation

DVCAM; Master

DVCAM; Sub-master

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy

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