- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0931
Brookes, Helen May
(1917 – 2008)- Born 3 November 1917, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Died 1 January 2008, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Occupation Entomologist
Summary
Helen Brookes was born in Melbourne and moved several times before settling in Adelaide in 1929. She started her working career at the Waite Institute with Dr Davidson. Later Brookes became a technical assistant and eventually senior lecturer as a systematic entomologist. Following her retirement, in 1982, she presented her insect collection to the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra. Brookes was a member of the Lyceum and Minerva Clubs. In 1999, Year of the Older Person, Brookes was invited to a symposium in Canberra as an outstanding older woman scientist.