Editing Ruby Payne-Scott (section)

==Early career==

In 1936, Payne-Scott conducted research with William H. Love at the Cancer Research Laboratory at the University of Sydney. They determined that the [[magnetism]] of the Earth had little or no effect on the vital processes of beings living on the Earth by cultivating chicken embryos with no observable differences, despite being in magnetic fields up to 5,000 times as powerful as that of the Earth.<ref name="Gozzard2016"/> Some decades earlier it was a widely held belief that the Earth's magnetic field produced extensive effects on human beings, and many people would sleep only with the head to the north and the body parallel to the magnetic meridian.<ref name="Examiner1936"/>

After her cancer research, she worked for a year and a term as a secondary school teacher at [[St Peter's Woodlands Grammar School]] from 1938 through 1939.<ref name="Goss2013a"/>{{rp|61}}  Shortly after this, Payne-Scott joined [[Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia)|AWA]], a prominent electronics manufacturer and operator of [[two-way radio]] communications systems in Australia.<ref name="CSIROpedia"/> Although originally hired as a librarian, her work quickly expanded to leading the measurements laboratory and performing electrical engineering research.{{r|Goss2013a|p=64}}  She left AWA in August 1941, having grown displeased with its research environment.{{r|Goss2010|p=31}}