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Kimberly Bryant

Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.

Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier

Nobel-winning biochemist who co-developed CRISPR gene editing technology

Beatrice Mintz

Dr. Beatrice Mintz was a groundbreaking cancer researcher and embryologist who helped increase our understanding of mammalian development.

Nettie Stevens

Discoverer of sex chromosomes

Dr Teruko Ishizaka

Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966

Dr Judith Kinnear

Australian geneticist and the first woman to lead a New Zealand university.

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.