Helen newton turner biography

Helen Alma Newton Turner AO OBE (– 26 November 1995) was an.
Dr Helen Alma Newton Turner (15 May, 1908 - 26 November, 1995) is rightly regarded as one of Australia's foremost geneticists.
Helen Alma Newton Turner AO OBE was an Australian geneticist and statistician.

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Helen Newton Turner Trust

The Helen Newton Turner Trust was established in 1993 following an anonymous donation to the Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit to perpetuate the memory of Helen Newton Turner and to encourage and inspire those engaged in animal genetics.

The Trust provides two awards every two years that are named in honour of Dr Helen Newton Turner who had an outstanding career with CSIRO that was deidcated to the research into the genetic improvement of sheep for wool production.

The first award is the prestigious Helen Newton Turner Medal to recognise significant achievement and outstanding contribution to advances in animal genetics in Australia.

The second, a new award established in 2021, the Helen Newton Turner Bright Futures Award, recognises the achievements of an up-and-coming individual who is showing evidence of establishing a reputation for excellence in the field of animal genetics within Australia.

A biography of Dr Helen Newton Turner AO OBE can be found on the Association for the Advan

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Helen Alma Newton Turner [1908-1995]

Biography

Helen Alma Newton Turner graduated Bachelor of Architecture with Honours from the University of Sydney in 1930 during the depression and could find no better job than that of a secretary in an architect’s office. When It closed a year later she was appointed secretary to Ian Clunies Ross, the head of CSIR’s McMaster Animal Health Laboratory at the University of Sydney. He recognised her potential and arranged for her to go to England for a year to study statistics applied to agriculture.

This was the start of a scientific career that would see her recognised as one of the pioneers of sheep breeding internationally. Helen Newton Turner introduced important new concepts to Merino sheep-breeding in Australia. She led CSIRO’s sheep breeding research from 1956 to 1973 as the Senior Principal Research Scientist in the Division of Animal Genetics.

In an obituary published in The Australian late November 1995, Nessy Allen (Senior Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales) wrote:

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Helen Alma Newton Turner

Australian geneticist (1908–1995)

Helen Alma Newton TurnerAO OBE (15 May 1908 – 26 November 1995) was an Australian geneticist and statistician. She was a leading authority on sheep genetics and worked at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for 40 years.

Biography

Helen Alma Newton Turner was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 15 May 1908. She received her BArch in 1930, graduating with honors from the University of Sydney. She worked briefly in an architect's office before taking a position as Ian Clunies Ross' secretary at the McMaster Animal Health Laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (now the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in 1931.^[1]^[2] She developed an interest in statistics and Ross arranged for her to train in the United Kingdom with statisticians Frank Yates and Ronald Fisher.^[3] She returned to CSIRO in 1939 as a consulting statistician to the agency's Division of Animal Health and Productio