Belle Dibley Hawgood
Belle Dibley Hawgood made an important regional contribution to botany by collecting approximately 1,000 herbarium specimens, most from northern Ohio, over a period of more than forty years.
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Verna Frances Gaylor
A trailblazer and acknowledged authority in the field of analytical chemistry and research
Dr Eva Jellett
Irish doctor
Dr Attracta Rewcastle
Irish doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy
Dr Mary Whiton Calkins
In 1905 she served as the first female President of the American Psychological Association and in 1908 was ranked twelfth on a 1908 list of the top 50 psychologists in the country. Calkins also served as President of the American Philosophical Association in 1918.
Alice Eaton
Alice Eaton and her sister Mary Martha Eaton (1868 – 1941) both collected plant specimens around the family home in Youngedin, Western Australia, and near the sources of the Swan and Blackwood Rivers; over 750 of her specimens are retained in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Elaine Little
Australian pathologist who, on finding that women were not allowed to join the Australian Imperial Forces, offered her services as bacteriologist to the British Army Medical Corps. Returning to Sydney in 1920 Little established one of the first private pathology practices in New South Wales.
Edith Barrett
Edith Barrett ran a small general practice in Melbourne but devoted her energies to voluntary work concerning the health and welfare of women and children. She founded the Bush Nursing Association in 1910, with her brother James and was associated with the Red Cross from 1914-1937.
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander was a geologist and radio astronomer who worked in radar in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
Dr Jean White-Haney
Jean White-Haney was a McBain research scholar in the Botany Department, University of Melbourne and was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1909. She was Officer-in-Charge of the Dulacca Research Station, Queensland Prickly Pear Board until 1916 and worked for CSIR 1928-1930.