Audrey Cahn

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Australian microbiologist and nutritionist (1905–2008).

Audrey Josephine Cahn (17 October 1905 – 1 April 2008) was an Australian microbiologist and nutritionist. The daughter of Prof. William Alexander Osborne, professor of physiology, biochemistry and histology, and Ethel Elizabeth Goodson, a medical practitioner and industrial hygienist, she was born Audrey Josephine Osborne at the University of Melbourne, where she also grew up. In 1928, she became the first woman to complete a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at the University of Melbourne, and, later received a diploma in dietetics from the university. She first worked as a microbiologist and food analyst for Kraft.

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