Gwladys Yvonne McKeon
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Gwladys Yvonne McKeon | |
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 McKeon in 1930 | |
| Born | 23 August 1897 Llanelli, Wales |
| Died | 15 August 1979 (aged 81) Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | marine biology |
Gwladys Yvonne McKeon (23 August 1897 — 15 August 1979) was a Welsh-born Australian marine biologist. Though her paid employment in science was brief, she made contributions as a trained independent researcher through her life, culminating with her popular handbook, Life on the Australian Seashore (1966).
Gwladys Yvonne James was born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the daughter of a schoolmaster in Queensland. She was the youngest of her parents' seven children, born when the family was visiting in Wales. Gwladys lived in Wales until the family returned to Australia in 1899. She was educated at Albert State School in Maryborough, Maryborough Girls Grammar School, and University of Queensland, where she earned bachelor's (1918) and master's (1920) degrees in biology, focusing on parasitology.[1]
