Early Life and Education
Sweet was born into a Methodist family Brunswick, Victoria; her father George Sweet was an amateur geologist and encouraged both his daughters to enter tertiary education. Sweet attended the Parkville Ladies' College, then went on to the University of Melbourne where she completed her BSc in 1896 and her MSc in 1898. Her early research was supervised by Baldwin Spencer and was on Australian fauna, but her later studies were based in the veterinary department working on parasites. She was awarded her DSc in 1904 for her study of Notoryctes - the marsupial mole; she was the first woman to take out a Doctor of Science at the University. Her work on parasites in Australian native animals and stock led to the award of the David Syme Research Prize in 1911, she was the first female recipient of the prize and she received a reputation as Australia's foremost parasitologist.
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