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Name	Ruby Violet Payne-Scott
Alternative Names	Ruby Violet Hall
Born	28 May, 1912 Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Died	25 May, 1981 (aged 68) Mortdale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	dementia
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hall, Peter Gavin (son)
Occupation *	communist (1934-1974) New South Wales, Australia physicist (1934-1951) New South Wales, Australia schoolteacher (1963-1974) New South Wales, Australia

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