Paddy Bassett

áká_ịkẹngạ|thumb|Bassett na 2003
**Elsie Gertrude** "**Paddy**" **Bassett** (née **Thorpe**, 15 Julaị 1918 - 20 Julaị 2019) bụ onye sayensị ọrụ ugbo nke New Zealand. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Massey Agricultural College na 1941, na-aghọ nwanyị mbụ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ.   Bassett bụkwa otu n'ime ụmụ akwụkwọ nwanyị abụọ mbụ a nabatara na Canterbury Agricultural College (nke bụzi Mahadum Lincoln). 

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
Elsie Gertrude "Paddy" Thorpe mụrụ na remote Menzies Bay na Banks Peninsula na South Island nke New Zealand, na 15 Julaị 1918. Nne na nna ya bụ Francis Thorpe, onye ọrụ ugbo nke mechara ghọọ onye ụkọchukwu Anglican, na Constance (Connie) Menzies.  O tolitere n'ugbo ezinụlọ, onye ọchịchị na-azụkwa ya na mbụ, n'agbanyeghị na o mechara gaa Okains Bay Primary School.

E zigara ya n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ụlọ akwụkwọ na Timaru, bụ ebe ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ Craighead Diocesan ma nwee nkà na Latin na French.  Ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ enyeghị ihe ọmụmụ sayensị n'agbanyeghị, na dịka Bassett kpebiri ịghọ vet, mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ debanyere aha maka afọ abụọ nke ọmụmụ ihe etiti na Canterbury College, Christchurch (ugbu a University of Canterbury).  Agbanyeghị ebe kacha nso maka mmụta sayensị anụmanụ bụ Sydney, Australia, na Bassett kpebiri ịgbanwe atụmatụ ya na mụọ ọrụ ugbo.

O tinyere akwụkwọ na Lincoln Agricultural College (nke bụzi Mahadum Lincoln), agbanyeghị na mahadum ahụ anabataghị ụmụ akwụkwọ nwanyị n'oge ahụ. Kama nke ahụ, ọ debanyere aha na Massey Agricultural College wee bụrụ nwa akwụkwọ nwanyị mbụ ya. Mgbe o rutere Massey, ọ gbanwere aha ya ka ọ bụrụ "Paddy" ebe ọ na-enweghị mmasị na aha mbụ ya.
thumb|Thorpe na Lincoln College na 1942 (ahịrị nke abụọ, nke isii site n'aka ekpe)
Bassett gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Bachelor of Agricultural Science na 1941, wee were ọnọdụ dị ka onye enyemaka onye nyocha na Ngalaba Nnyocha Anụmanụ nke Ngalaba Ọrụ Ugbo. Ọ chọrọ ịga n'ihu n'ọmụmụ ihe ya na, yana Daintry Walker, nwanyị nke abụọ Massey gụsịrị akwụkwọ na sayensị ọrụ ugbo, kwenye na Lincoln College's Campbell McMeekan ịnakwere ha dị ka ụmụ akwụkwọ mbụ ụmụ nwanyị na kọleji.[1].  Isiokwu nke akwụkwọ akụkọ nna ya ukwu bụ mmekọrịta dị n'etiti anụ ehi pituitary glands na ovarian dysfunction.

N'ụbọchị nke 5 n'ọnwa Ọktoba n'afọ 1943, ọ lụrụ Colin Holman Bassett na Holy Trinity Church na Christchurch nke Avonside . 

## Ọrụ
Bassett gara Hamilton, na North Island nke New Zealand, iji gaa n'ihu na nyocha ya n'okpuru McMeekan na ụlọ ọrụ nyocha anụmanụ Ruakura nke e guzobere ọhụrụ. N'afọ 1954 ọ debanyere aha na Mahadum Cambridge maka ọmụmụ doctoral ya, nọrọ afọ abụọ na-amụ ma na-eme nchọpụta n'okpuru John Dixon Boyd. Usoro mmụta PhD ya, nke akpọrọ Observations on the anatomy of the atụrụ: na ntụaka pụrụiche gbasara afọ ime na nkebi, ka emechara na 1957.[1]  Mgbe ọ laghachiri na New Zealand, ọ gara biri na Dunedin wee rụọ ọrụ na ngalaba Endocrinology Council nke Medical Research na Mahadum Otago's Dunedin Medical School.  Ọ kụzikwaara ụmụ akwụkwọ ahụike n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ihe gbasara njikọ anụ ahụ.

N'afọ 1980, Bassett kwagara Nelson wee were ọnọdụ dị ka onye nyocha nsọpụrụ na Nelson Hospital Board. Ọtụtụ n'ime nnyocha ya mgbe ọ nọ na Nelson bụ mmekọrịta, ya na ndị nchọpụta na Mahadum nke Otago's Wellington School of Medicine. Mgbe ọ nọ na 80s ya, a họpụtara ya onye ọrụ na-asọpụrụ na ngalaba pathology na Ụlọ Akwụkwọ, ma kwaga Wellington ka ọ gaa n'ihu na nyocha ya banyere mgbanwe anụ ahụ jikọtara.[1].  Bassett lara ezumike nká na nyocha n'ime afọ 90 ya, ebe o bipụtara ihe karịrị akwụkwọ nyocha 20.

Bassett nwụrụ na 20 Julaị 2019, ụbọchị ise mgbe ọ gachara afọ 101.

## Ihe nrite na nsọpụrụ
N'afọ 2002, Bassett natara ihe nrite ncheta nke Mahadum Massey maka enyemaka pụrụ iche o nyere n'ọhịa ya.  N'afọ 2017, a họpụtara ya dị ka otu n'ime "ụmụ nwanyị 150 na okwu 150" nke Royal Society of New Zealand.

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