Joan Forrest Gardner DPhil (Oxon), AO
16-6-1918 – 19-11-2013
JRL Forsyth , Mary Maslen , Rosemary Davidson and Margaret M Peel
Microbiology Australia 35(2) 112-113 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA14037
Published: 15 May 2014
Abstract
Dr Joan Forrest Gardner was born in Melbourne on 16 June 1918, the only daughter of Dr John (Jack) Forrest Gardner and Dr Hilda Josephine Gardner. Her mother was an older sister of Sir Howard Florey, the famed developer of penicillin. Joan’s early life was beset by tragedy as her father died from tetanus after a car accident when she was 10 years of age and her only brother died six years later from a mastoid infection. Her mother then joined the staff of the Melbourne Hospital (now Royal Melbourne Hospital) where she became bacteriologist and serologist. Dr Hilda Gardner was a distinguished and effective professional, who set a high standard for her daughter to follow.
