Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsEntomologistsArtistsHistoryNancye Kent graduated in Zoology and Physiology at Sydney University in 1944. She embarked on her post-graduate year in agric. economic entomology and worked in England in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Forests Products Research Lab. Upon her return to Melbourne in 1951, Kent was employed by the CSIRO, as an entomologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, as a trout biologist for the Victorian Government in 1952 and in Canberra as a Senior Research Officer in the Dept. of Health in 1955. After her marriage to Warren Perry in 1957, Nancye Perry has later concentrated on her painting, working with the Heidelberg Art Group and others. Born Killara 16 December 1918; studied Sydney University 1939-42; worked National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1943-4; postgrad. in agricultural économic entomology 1945; DSIR England 1947-50; CSIRO Melb. 1950-51; Walter and Eliza Hall Institute 1951-2; Fisheries and Game 1953-5; C'wealth Dept. of Health, Canberra and Tasmania 1955-7 Nancye Perry ceased work in scientific research and became a demonstrator in zoology for medical students at Melb. Univ.
