Fanny Cohen
Fanny Cohen was a first class scholar in geology and mathematics at the University of Sydney and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. She returned to Sydney and in 1929 became headmistress of Fort Street Girls’ High School.
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Dr Deborah Loewenberg Ball
American mathematics educator and advocate
Dr Diane L Souvaine
American mathematician and computer scientist
Betty Gent
Australian mathematician and professor
Gloria Ray Karlmark
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools, she later founded and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Computers in Industry, an international journal of computer science and engineering.
Anne Penfold Street
Anne Street was a mathematician specialising in combinatorical designs, binary arrays and Ramsey theory who held positions at universities, both within Australia and abroad, from 1953.
Susan Ellenberg
When FDA and CBER created its own Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Ellenberg was selected as its first director, a position she held from 1993-2004. Her work at FDA was characterized by a commitment to vaccine safety accompanied by an insistence on more publications by regulators in professional journals to make clear not only what was known, but also what was not known, about the safety of children’s vaccines.
Dora Metcalf
British entrepreneur, mathematician and computing pioneer
Doreen Thomas
An academic with achievements spanning multiple decades, fields of study and sectors
Asha Rao
Professor Asha Rao is a mathematician by training and applies algebraic techniques to a wide variety of problems, ranging from designing better codes for communication, to detecting money laundering and describing human interactions in the physical space.