Anne Bermingham (1925 - 2006) was a chemist who pioneered radio carbon dating in Australia at the Museum of Applied Science in Melbourne.
In 1956 she was awarded a Travelling Scholarship from the English Speaking Union and used it to visit radiocarbon dating laboratories in the USA.
[2][3] Between 1946 and 1952, Birmingham held positions as Chemist with the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, followed by Lifeguard Milk Products in Bacchus Marsh, and then Swallow and Ariell ice cream in Melbourne.
Bermingham successfully operated a process to obtain carbon dioxide from carbonaceous material and built an apparatus for counting carbon-14 decompositions.
[3] In the 1960s, Bermingham played an important role in establishing the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation in Australia, corresponding with a number of archaeologists and geologists in establishing dates and dating methods at sites such as Green Gully and Kenniff Cave with John Mulvaney,[7] establishing the Pleistocene dates for the flint mining site at Koonalda Cave,[8] and the shell midden material at Rocky Cape in Tasmania.