Quentin Bryce
Also known as Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, Dame Quentin Bryce, Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, Quentin Strachan
25th Governor-General of Australia
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- Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
- Dear Quentin
- Outback Spirit
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- Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
· 2020 · cited 4,732x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,686x
- Global burden of NAFLD and NASH: trends, predictions, risk factors and prevention
· 2017 · cited 4,662x
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Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th governor-general of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position. She was previously the 24th governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008.
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Bryce was raised in Ilfracombe, with her family subsequently living in a number of country towns around Australia. She attended the University of Queensland, where she completed Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees, becoming one of the first women accepted to the Queensland Bar.
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