Nelly Hooper Ludbrook, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Nelly Hooper Ludbrook

paleontologist and geologist

Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1907

Date of Death: 09-May-1995

Profession: geologist, paleontologist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Nelly Hooper Ludbrook (1907–1995) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist.Nelly Hooper Woods (better known as Nell Hooper Ludbrook) was born in Yorketown, South Australia on 14 June 1907.
Her mother had studied as a teacher at the University of Adelaide in 1900.
After attending Mount Barker High School, Nell enrolled in the University of Adelaide in 1926, taking her B.A.
in 1928 and a teaching degree, as she had not studied enough prerequisite science subjects to enrol in a B.Sc..
She studied geology and mathematics, and appealed to Dr C.T.
Madigan to give her a research project in geology.
She worked on the fossil mollusc collection of Sir Joseph Verco for many years and pursued her M.A.