Vale Sue Dixon

Abstract

Friends and colleagues of Sue Dixon were saddened to hear of her passing in August 2016 after a short illness. Sue was born on 10 January 1928 in Malvern, Adelaide. After graduating from Unley High School she commenced her career in microbiology as a laboratory assistant cleaning test tubes at the then recently established Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS). Sue was awarded a cadetship by the IMVS to study at Adelaide University where she graduated with a BSc in 1949. From 1949 to 1952 Sue worked as a bacteriologist at the IMVS and then resigned to start a family. After rejoining the IMVS in 1960 Sue assumed responsibility for the National Salmonella Reference Centre established by her mentor and good friend the eminent Dr Nancy Atkinson. From 1967 until her retirement in 1983 Sue was the head of the Salmonella Reference Laboratory (SRL) and Food Hygiene Laboratory at the IMVS.