Agriculture Archives - Infinite Women

Mary Dilys Glynne

As well as being a leading scientist, Mary Glynne was also a distinguished mountaineer.

Jennie Moton served briefly as director of Tuskegee’s Department of Women’s Industries and later was a field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).

Annie Zachary Pike

American farmer and community activist who became the first African-American appointee to a state board and was later appointed to a variety of federal organizations by President Richard M. Nixon.

Dianne Davidson

Australian viticulturist and company director

Dr Joan Tully

Australian scientist who held a number of posts at the Council for Scientific Research (CSIR) and later the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Lilian Ross Fraser

Lillian Ross Fraser was a botanist whose work identifying fungi and viruses was hugely beneficial to the New South Wales citrus industry.

Johanna Döbereiner

Czech botanist Johanna Döbereiner moved to Brazil in 1951, where she pioneered the study of how plants and microbes interact, such as how certain bacteria can promote plant growth.