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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Vale Jennifer Taplin BSc (21/4/1929–21/10/2016)

By and Joc Forsyth

Microbiology Australia 38(1) 43-43 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA17019
Published: 9 February 2017

Abstract

Jenny was born in Ballarat. Soon after, her parents moved to a 300 acre property at Millbrook. She was educated at home until, aged seven, she was able to cycle to the local, one-teacher, State School. In this environment she acquired a permanent love of nature. In 1941, as a shy only child, she was sent to board at the Hermitage CEGGS. Her father’s death just before her final examinations led to her failure. She repeated the matriculation with success, but had to attend a boy’s college to study science subjects.