Elizabeth Dennis
Elizabeth Salisbury Liz Dennis is an Australian scientist working mainly in the area of plant molecular biology. She is currently a chief scientist at the plant division of CSIRO Canberra. She is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and Australian Academy of sciences . She jointly received inaugural prime minister prize together with Professor Jim Peacock in 2000 for her outstanding achievements in science and technology.
Elizabeth Salisbury Dennis, known as Liz Dennis, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, onDecember 1943. In her school years, she was inspired by the life of Marie Curie and decided to become a scientist. She completed a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Sydney , and focused on DNA replication in bacteria during her Ph.D entitled Studies on the Bacillus subtilis genome .
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