Dr Fauriel Lockett

Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.

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Hilda Gardner

Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.

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Dr Hildred Butler

Hildred Butler investigated the causes of infections during and after childbirth while working at the Baker Medical Research Institute and later the (Royal) Women’s Hospital from 1928 to 1971. She recorded her findings in twenty-one papers published both in Australia and overseas.

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Dora Lush

Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Liz Grant

Elizabeth Grant was a pharmacy proprietor and manager for many years. She was also a Member of the House of Assembly, Australian Capital Territory, 1979-1982.

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Dr Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan

Gwynneth Buchanan became a Lecturer in 1921 and a Senior Lecturer in 1925 in Zoology at the University of Melbourne. Her much used text “Elements of Animal Morphology” was published in 1921.

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Dr Dawn Frith

Dawn Frith and her husband carried out long-term studies of bower birds and birds of paradise in northern Queensland and in New Guinea, from which they wrote the first – and often the only – accounts of the nesting biology and behaviour of these species.

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Ellen McCulloch

Ellen McCulloch was a long-term member, Honorary Secretary (1975-1982) and Public Relations Officer of the Bird Observers Club of Australia (BOCA). She authored many books and lectured and ran tours for the CAE (Council for Adult Education, Melbourne) for over ten years.

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