Australian Virologist
Yvonne Edna Cossart AO (14 August 1934 – 16 December 2014) was an Australian virologist, who discovered the parvovirus B19 in 1975.
Cossart graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in 1957 and MBBS in 1959.
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to medicine as a specialist in infectious diseases, especially in the areas of virological research, epidemiology and disease prevention, and to education".
Cossart died at Greenwich Hospital on 16 December 2014, aged 80.
Works
- Cossart, Yvonne E (1977), Virus hepatitis and its control, Baillière Tindall, ISBN 978-0-7020-0651-7
- Department of Infectious Diseases; Cossart, Yvonne E (1990), History and philosophy of medicine for medical students, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
- Cossart, Yvonne E; Pegler, Mollie; University of Sydney. Faculty of Medicine (1993), Doctor! Look behind you : a companion for medical students, History & Philosophy of Medicine Unit, University of Sydney
- Sefton, Ann Jervie; Cossart, Yvonne E; Freckelton, Louise; University of Sydney (2006), 150 years of the Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-1-920898-35-9
References
- "Death Notice: Yvonne COSSART". Legacy.com. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- "Cossart, Yvonne". The University of Sydney School of Medicine Online Museum. University of Sydney. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- "Cossart, Yvonne - Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive". www.sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- "Professor Yvonne Edna Cossart". It's an Honour. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- "Yvonne COSSART". Memories. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- 1934 births
- 2014 deaths
- Australian virologists
- Officers of the Order of Australia
- Academic staff of the University of Sydney
- University of Sydney alumni
- Women virologists
- 20th-century Australian scientists
- 20th-century Australian women scientists
- 21st-century Australian scientists
- 21st-century Australian women scientists