Edith Coleman
Edith Coleman was a naturalist who wrote prolifically on a wide range of animals and published in both scientific journals and the popular press.
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Jennifer Martin
Jennifer Martin is internationally acknowledged for her expertise in protein crystallography. Her research is focussed on understanding the molecular basis of disease and applying this knowledge to early-stage drug discovery.
Georgina Sweet
Georgina Sweet was Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1920-1924. Her research included the zoology of Australian native animals and the parasites infesting Australian stock and native fauna.
Eleanor Williams
Eleanor Williams was one of the first three staff members of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). She co-authored and authored more than fifty publications in her career and specialised in research on dysentery, influenza and snake venom.
Dr Mary Amdur
Dr. Mary Amdur was a public health researcher who is known as the “mother of air pollution toxicology.”
Dr June Halliday
June Halliday was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, 11 June 1990, for service to medical science, particularly in the field of biochemical research.
Elizabeth Coxen
Elizabeth Frances Coxen was a naturalist and meteorologist who, together with her husband Charles, donated many natural history specimens to the Queensland Museum.
Eleanor Emily Chase
Eleanor Emily Chase was a Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Sydney in the 1910s and 1920s
Elizabeth Gould
1800s natural history illustrator
Harriet Scott
Natural history illustrator whose paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena, as an honorary member.