A thesis, glass tubes, a bronze plaque. This is the evidence left to remember world-class atmospheric physicist Jean Laby. She was the first woman to achieve a PhD in the School of Physics in 1956. But on a campus that lacks recognition of historically significant women, this prompts the question: how would Laby have been commemorated if she was a man? Jade Murray explores the University of Melbourne Parkville campus to search for the forgotten stories of women in science. 

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Interviewees:
Elisabetta Barberio – Professor of Physics and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence
Katie Wood – Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives
Em Bawden - Immunologist from the Peter Doherty Institute
Joe Pascoe - Poet and co-curator of the Jean Laby exhibit 

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from Pixabay

 ‘Order’ - ComaStudio

‘Space Chillout’ - penguinmusic

'Tuesday' - amaksi

A thesis, glass tubes, a bronze plaque. This is the evidence left to remember world-class atmospheric physicist Jean Laby. She was the first woman to achieve a PhD in the School of Physics in 1956. But on a campus that lacks recognition of historically significant women, this prompts the question: how would Laby have been commemorated if she was a man? Jade Murray explores the University of Melbourne Parkville campus to search for the forgotten stories of women in science. 
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Interviewees:
<ul>
<li>Elisabetta Barberio – Professor of Physics and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence</li>
<li>Katie Wood – Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives</li>
<li>Em Bawden - Immunologist from the Peter Doherty Institute</li>
<li>Joe Pascoe - Poet and co-curator of the Jean Laby exhibit </li>
</ul>
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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from Pixabay
 ‘<a href="https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-order-99518/">Order</a>’ - ComaStudio
‘<a href="https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-space-chillout-14194/">Space Chillout</a>’ - penguinmusic
'<a href="https://pixabay.com/music/beats-tuesday-glitch-soft-hip-hop-118327/">Tuesday</a>' - amaksi

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia. 

An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way. Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects - or people - are lost from history. And what that says about Australia.

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