Diane Lemaire

Diane Adrienne Lemaire (2 February 1923 – 27 October 2012) was an Australian aeronautical engineer.

[4] Lemaire attended St Catherine's School in Toorak, Melbourne, Australia, graduating in 1939.

Her thesis title was On the Question of the Existence of a Homogeneous Solution to the Equation for the Flow over the Shrough of a Ducted Propeller.

In her will, dated 18 August 2010, Lemaire left a bequest of one fifth of her residuary estate to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, to support research in the field of fluid dynamics.

The Melbourne School of Engineering established the Diane Lemaire Scholarship for female PhD students who have completed the equivalent of at least six months candidature and is awarded on the basis of academic merit, the quality of their research, the strength of a personal statement and their resume, including any publications.