Dr Carol Oliver
Since 2002 Carol Oliver has held multiple roles at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA) becoming the Deputy Director in 2012.
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Dr Alicia Oshlack
Head of the bioinformatics research group Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne
Dr Valerie L Thomas
Dr Thomas was an integral part of the early Landsat digital image processing team, making Earth observation from space a reality.
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.
Enheduanna
Princess, priestess and the world’s first known author
Mary Louise Miller
Mary Louise Miller Thorndike worked at the Harvard College Observatory from approximately 1926-1931 and 1934-1941.
Mary Applegate
Mary Doris Beach (née Applegate) (1896-1954) was an Academic Fellow and worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1918-1921.
Maude Ryder
Maude Ryder worked at the Harvard College Observatory from approximately 1929 until at least 1941.
Naomi Kitay Greenstein
Naomi Kitay Greenstein (c 1910-2002) worked at the Harvard College Observatory from c. 1936-c. 1938 and was listed as a co-author in HCO publications as late as 1954. Her work focused on calculating light curves for variable stars.
Nettie Farrar Harris
Nettie A. Farrar Harris worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1881-1885.1 She was the fifth woman computer to work at the HCO, and her work primarily involved using the glass plates to calculate relative magnitudes of stars and measure stellar spectra.