Lucy Meredith Bryce CBE (12 June 1897 – 30 July 1968) was an....
Lucy Meredith Bryce CBE was an Australian haematologist and medical researcher, who worked with the Australian Red Cross Society to establish the first blood transfusion service in Australia.
Lucy Meredith Bryce
Australian physician
Lucy Meredith BryceCBE (12 June – 30 July ) was an Australian haematologist and medical researcher, who worked with the Australian Red Cross Society to establish the first blood transfusion service in Australia.[1]
Early life and education
Lucy Bryce was born in Lindfield, New South Wales, and educated in Melbourne, at the Melbourne Girls Grammar School.
She entered Janet Clarke Hall, the women's hostel of Trinity College, University of Melbourne in , earning degrees at the University of Melbourne in () and (M.B., B.S.).[2] Notable Australians who also graduated in her class included Dame Kate Isabel Campbell, Jean Littlejohn and Jean Macnamara.
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Career
Bryce started her career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research after college. While still in her twenties, she spent a year working at the Lister Institute in London.
From to , she was on staff as a bacteriologist at the Royal