Dr Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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Dr Anne Astin
Australian pioneer for women in biochemistry and advocate for rural women
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Dr Liane Russell
Austrian-American geneticist and environmentalist
Margaret Blackwood
Australian botanist and geneticist, and an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II
Dr Jacqueline Stewart Falconer
Jacqueline Stewart Falconer studied physiology at University College, London. Awarded a B.Sc. she was appointed as a Demonstrator in Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of King’s College London in 1941. In 1944 she was appointed as a lecturer in the Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Newcastle.
Jessica U Meir
American astronaut
Dr Sangeeta Bhatia
A biomedical researcher, MIT professor, and biotech entrepreneur, she has invented human microlivers to study drug metabolism and liver disease as well as nanoparticles that help diagnose, study, and treat ailments like cancer.
Floy Agnes Lee
Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.
Dr Maude Abbott
In 1936, Dr. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease, which became the definitive reference guide to the subject.