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Una Lucy Fielding(2 May 1888-11 August 1968) was a neuroanatomist from Australia.

Early Life and Education
The daughter of a clergyman, Fielding was the oldest of five children. She earned a BA in English and French from the University of Sydney in 1910 and spent her next six years teaching. She returned to the university in 1916 to pursue a degree in medicine, becoming one of ten women in a class of over 100 to graduate with a MB ChM in 1926.

Work and Research
After her graduation, Fielding taught at London's University College, supplementing a meager demonstrator's salary trimming hats. During this time she began research on notorcytes,marsupial moles. She published her first paper in 1925. In 1927, Fielding moved to the United States to teach neurology at the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan. While here, Fielding helped establish an anatomy department at American University of Beirut and did research on ovaries.

Continuing her studies of notorcytes, Fielding collaborated with Gregor T. Popa. Their discovery of the vascular link between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland was published The Lancet and the Journal of Anatomy between 1930 and 1932.