Marian Farquharson
In 1885, Marian Farquharson was elected as the first female fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society—but as a woman she was still prohibited from actually attending any meetings or voting on society matters.
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Jane Colden
After five years of diligent work, botanist Jane Colden completed her manuscript on the plants of New York in 1758, full of vibrant descriptions of hundreds of native plants, as well as practical uses and beautiful illustrations.
Dr Marilyn Anderson
Australian researcher in plant biochemistry and genetics.
Edwina Cornish
Edwina Cornish is a biotechnologist who played a key role in establishing one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited, in the 1990s. The company developed and commercialised some of the world’s first genetically modified plants.
Dr Dorothy Steane
Research scientist on the phylogeny, population genetics and evolution of eucalypts (family Myrtaceae), who has also pursued molecular phylogenetic studies of other plant families including Lamiaceae, Ericaceae, Rutaceae and Orchidaceae.
Joan Taylor
Although her position at the Australian National Botanic Gardens was classified as Gardener, her duties included plant identification and herbarium curation.
Joy Thompson
Joy Thompson joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales as a flora writer and specimen curator in 1946, and was Honorary Research Associate at the Herbarium from 1982 to 2009.
Dr Joan Tully
Australian scientist who held a number of posts at the Council for Scientific Research (CSIR) and later the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Lilian Ross Fraser
Lillian Ross Fraser was a botanist whose work identifying fungi and viruses was hugely beneficial to the New South Wales citrus industry.
Julia Sewell
Julia Sewell was a plant collector in southwestern Western Australia where her family ran sheep and cattle stations. Between 1882 and 1892 she collected around Mount Caroline, the Swan River, Bunbury and Geographe Bay.