Dr Teruko Ishizaka
Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966
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Birutė Galdikas
German primatologist
Dr Judith Kinnear
Australian geneticist and the first woman to lead a New Zealand university.
Elizabeth Deane
Elizabeth Deane has been Professor of Biology and Head of the Division of Environment and Life Sciences in the College of Science and Technology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research covers marsupial immunology and disease, with a particular interest in how the immune system develops and how young marsupials survive in the pouch.
Margaret Fountaine
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine was one of the most prolific and famous butterfly collectors of her time. She not only collected the butterflies but breed them so she could study their lifecycle. Fountaine became an expert in tropical butterfly life cycles and was a talented artist who made many detailed and beautiful watercolours of her specimens.
Emily Lawless
Irish novelist, historian, and poet
Peg Lindsley Arnold
Yellowstone National Park ranger and naturalist, 1921-1931
Florence Davy Thompson
1800s Canadian biologist and librarian
Elsie Cassels
Scottish-Canadian naturalist, farmer, and office holder
Dr Elspeth McLachlan
Professor and Head of Department, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Queensland 1988-1993; Senior Principal Research Fellow, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney 1993-1999, among other roles