Adrienne Clarke is a former chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria and former Chancellor of La Trobe University.
11 Facts About Adrienne Clarke
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Adrienne Clarke attended Ruyton Girls' School and entered the University of Melbourne in 1955 where she was a resident of Janet Clarke Hall reading Science.
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Adrienne Clarke graduated with an Honours degree in Biological Sciences in 1959, and gained her PhD in 1963.
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Adrienne Clarke married Charles Peter Clarke on 14 August 1959.
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Adrienne Clarke worked at the University of Melbourne as Research Fellow, then lecturer, senior lecturer and reader before being appointed Professor of Botany in 1985 and Laureate Professor in 1999.
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Adrienne Clarke is a former chairman of CSIRO and a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria.
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Adrienne Clarke is a Fellow of Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne.
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Adrienne Clarke has been involved in the commercial sector; she was a director of a number of public companies and sat on a number of boards, including Western Mining, Alcoa, Fisher and Paykel, Woolworths and the AMP Society.
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Adrienne Clarke was a member of the Australian Advisory Board of the Global Nature Conservancy.
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Adrienne Clarke's team was the first to clone the gene which regulates self-compatibility in plants and the first to clone the "c" DNA of an arabinogalactan protein.
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Adrienne Clarke is co-editor of major scientific books dealing with chemistry, cell biology and genetics.