Dr Elizabeth White
Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment in the 1930s.
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Elizabeth Carrington Pope
Elizabeth Pope was an Australian marine zoologist highly-regarded for her research on the effect of sea temperatures and latitude on the distribution and abundance of intertidal organisms on rocky shores.
Danuta Krystyna Knihinicki
Danuta Khihinicki was an Australian acarologist whose main focus was on mites in the superfamily Eriophyoidea, particularly their taxonomy.
Ellen Clark
Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia’s crustacea.
Ina Watson
Ina Watson worked professionally as Publicity Officer for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in Victoria, but all her spare time was devoted to birds. She was an excellent field observer and photographer who contributed both photographs and text to a number of nature journals and published natural history stories for children including Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird (1946).
Dorothy Forsaith
Dorothy Frances Forsaith was Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1924 to 1927. In 1936 she was appointed Honorary Director, then Administrator of the Australian Red Cross’s Blood Transfusion Service.
Gwladys Yvonne McKeon
Gwladys Yvonne McKeon was a biologist with a passion for Australia’s marine environment.
Dr Fauriel Lockett
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.
Hilda Gardner
Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.
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.