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Alice Catherine Evans

While working at the Bureau of Animal Industry, Evans began investigating the bacteria Bacillus abortus, which was known to cause miscarriages in animals.

Dr Marilyn Anderson

Australian researcher in plant biochemistry and genetics.

Eleanor Stodart worked in the CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research and later authored and illustrated many nature and science books for children, including the acclaimed ‘Australian Junior Field Guides’ series, campaigned tirelessly for quality science books, took a leading role in the Children’s Book Council of Australia, and was editor of the journal ‘Reading Time’.

Edwina Cornish

Edwina Cornish is a biotechnologist who played a key role in establishing one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited, in the 1990s. The company developed and commercialised some of the world’s first genetically modified plants.

Dorothea Frey

Dorothea Frey was an Australian pathologist, medical mycologist and author.

Dr Dorothy Steane

Research scientist on the phylogeny, population genetics and evolution of eucalypts (family Myrtaceae), who has also pursued molecular phylogenetic studies of other plant families including Lamiaceae, Ericaceae, Rutaceae and Orchidaceae.

Lorna Green

Lorna Green, a graduate of the University of Adelaide in Australia, was a Lecturer in Human Histology there, and was on the staff from the mid-1920s to the 1960s.

Maida Allan

Maida Allan collected insects, reptiles and mammals from 1936 to 1938 for the Queensland Museum. One of her most significant finds was the burrowing skink Lerista allanea which is thought to now be extinct.

Leila Asche

Leila Asche worked in the field of microbiology for over forty years. Her work was recognised by the Australian Society for Microbiology in 1991 with a Distinguished Service Award.

Louisa Beaufort

1800s Welsh antiquarian, artist, entomologist and writer