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Hope Black (Jessica Hope MacPherson) was born on 1919 in Australia, is an Australian marine biologist. Discover Hope Black's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 99 years old?

Popular As Jessica Hope MacPherson
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Age 99 years old
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Born 1919, 1919
Birthday 1919
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Date of death 2018
Died Place Victoria Australia
Nationality Australia

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1937

In 1937 she started working at the National Museum of Victoria.

Hope Black was initially employed in 1937 at Museum Victoria by the support of the Carnegie Corporation.

She worked on developing and preparing new display cases for the McCoy Hall dioramas.

1946

Subsequently, she became Curator of Molluscs at the museum in 1946.

Appointed as Curator of Mollusks in 1946, Hope MacPherson was Australia's first female curator at the National Museum of Victoria.

1947

In 1947 Black collaborated to survey the Snowy River Gorge on horseback, prior construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme.

1957

Between 1957–1963, Black carried out biological surveys of Port Phillip Bay, and her results are still used as baseline data from which to measure environmental change in the area.

Black investigated the genus Teredo, a group of marine bivalve mollusks known as "shipworms".

She also surveyed edible molluscs in Victoria.

1959

One of the first four women to carry out research in the sub-Antarctic in 1959.

She was the National Museum's first female curator.

Notably, Black was also a member of a group of four women (also including Isobel Bennett, Susan Ingham and Mary Gillham) who were the first to carry out research in the sub-Antarctic in 1959.

1962

Ultimately, her mollusc research lead to her writing the book Molluscs of Victoria, which was published in 1962.

1965

When she married in 1965, she was forced to leave the museum, and instead became a science teacher for thirteen years.

Her tenure was brought to a close prematurely, when in 1965 she married and became Hope Black, requiring her retirement from the Victorian public service as a result of the marriage bar.

Subsequently, Black worked for 13 years as a science teacher.

2012

She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2012.

2018

Hope Black (née MacPherson, 1919 – 25 January 2018) was an Australian scientist, a marine biologist and malacologist.

2019

In 2019 Lake Macpherson on Macquarie Island was named for her.

In 2019 Lake Macpherson on Macquarie Island was named for her.