Beryl Nashar, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Beryl Nashar

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1923

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: geologist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Beryl Nashar O.B.E.
(1923-2012) was an Australian geologist, academic and first female Dean at an Australian university. Beryl Scott was born on 9 July 1923 in Maryville, New South Wales.
She grew up in the Newcastle area, the eldest of four children and attended Cardiff Public School and Newcastle Girls High School.
She completed her Leaving Certificate, coming first in the state in geology.
She received a scholarship to attend the University of Sydney, winning a prize each year and took her B.Sc.
with Honours in 1947.
Her early research looked at the geology of the Stanhope region of the Hunter Valley, near Newcastle.
She would later study mineralogy, geochemistry and the formation of minerals in andesitic rocks within the eastern parts of New South Wales.