Australian medical researcher Dora Lush died in the most heroic of circumstances, but you've probably never heard of her.
Neither had I, and I write about Australian scientists for a living. 
While conducting experiments on the deadly scrub typhus infection in 1943 the young researcher pricked her finger with an infected needle.
Within a week she had symptoms of the disease - fever, headache, rash - that was ravaging Australian soldiers in places like Papua New Guinea during World War II. 
Even on her death bed, Dora insisted her blood be drawn and sent to her colleagues. At least they could keep working on a scrub typhus vaccine, she thought. She died a few weeks later, on   May 20.
Fast forward fifty years and another young, female researcher Krystal Evans arrived in Melbourne to take up a Dora Lush scholarship to study at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI).
At the time Evans knew little about her scholarship's namesake. But while photocopying pages from her textbooks in the library night after night she often wondered about Dora.
"There's this beautiful picture of her that hangs up in the library at WEHI and she looks like a 1930s glamour starlet. I used to look at it and think 'wow, she died doing her research but now all this other science is now going on in her name'," said Dr Evans, now the CEO of the BioMelbourne Network.
This started her journey to uncover more about this little-known Australian scientist.
After interviewing Evans for the first part of Fairfax Media's six-part podcast series, Science is Golden, I too became captivated by Dora's life. And I'm not the only woman she's had this effect on.
In the course of making this story I found an historian and family member who helped fill in the missing pieces of Dora's puzzle.

 Dora may be known for her untimely death but, as I learned, her life and achievements were far more interesting.
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