Margaret di Menna explained

Margaret di Menna
Birth Name:Margaret Elaine di Menna
Birth Date:8 July 1923
Birth Place:Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
Death Place:Hamilton, New Zealand
Field:Microbiology
Thesis Title:Yeasts of the human body, their nature and relationship
Thesis Year:1954
Alma Mater:University of Otago

Margaret Elaine di Menna (8 July 1923 – 24 March 2014) was a New Zealand microbiologist. In 1954 she became the first woman to gain a Doctor of Philosophy degree from a New Zealand university. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Otago was entitled Yeasts of the human body, their nature and relationship.[1] She had previously graduated with a MSc(Hons) from the same institution in 1948.[2]

In 1990, di Menna was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal,[3] and in the 1997 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to microbiology.[4] In 2011, the reading room at Abbey College at the University of Otago was named in her honour.[5] She was a prominent member of Zonta International.[6]

She died in Hamilton in 2014.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Page . Dot . First of the few: an unsuitable degree for a woman? . New Zealand Federation of University Women Canterbury Branch Newsletter . April . 2012 . 5 . 29 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130208084313/http://www.nzfgw.org.nz/Documents/CanterburyNLAPR12.pdf . 8 February 2013 . dead .
  2. Web site: NZ university graduates 1870–1961 . 29 March 2014.
  3. Book: Taylor . Alister . Coddington . Deborah . Alister Taylor . Deborah Coddington . Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand . 1994 . New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa . Auckland . 0-908578-34-2 . 121.
  4. Web site: New Year honours list 1997 . 31 December 1996 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 15 December 2019.
  5. Web site: Awards and achievements . April 2011 . www.agresearch.co.nz. AgResearch . 29 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140329094114/http://www.agresearch.co.nz/publications/intouch/april-2011/Pages/awards-achievements.aspx . 29 March 2014 . dmy-all .
  6. News: A Brief History of Prominent Zonta Member: Margaret Di Menna, Club of Hamilton-Waikato. 2014. Zonta International New Zealand. 2018-10-07. en-GB.
  7. News: Dr Margaret di Menna obituary . 26 March 2014 . . 29 March 2014.

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