Vida Mary Stout
New Zealand limnographer and academic administrator
About Vida Mary Stout
Lived 1930 – 2012 (aged 82). Vida Mary Stout was a New Zealand biologist, academic and botanical collector.
Vida Mary Stout (20 February 1930 – 21 July 2012) was a New Zealand limnographer and academic administrator. She was the first woman to be Dean of Science at a New Zealand university.
Biography Stout was the daughter of Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout and granddaughter of Robert Stout. Born and raised in Wellington, Stout was educated at Woodford House in Hawke's Bay, where she was Dux.
She then studied at Victoria University College, where she completed a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in zoology. Her Masters thesis was on "Hydracarina from the Wellington province". Stout then completed a PhD at Bedford College, University of London, where she studied Daphnia.
After retiring in 1996, Stout continued to go to her office almost every day until the university forbid her access, citing fears for her safety due to her progressive Parkinson's disease, which caused her death in 2012.
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New Zealand limnographer and academic administrator (1930 - 2012)
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Vida Mary Stout was born on 20 February 1930 in Wellington.
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Vida Mary Stout died on 21 July 2012 in Christchurch.
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Vida Mary Stout was a biologist, academic and botanical collector.
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