Dr Lily Newton
In 1928 Newton was appointed lecturer in Botany at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, where she was a member of staff until her retirement in 1958. She was promoted to Professor and Head of Department in 1930.
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Mary Dilys Glynne
As well as being a leading scientist, Mary Glynne was also a distinguished mountaineer.
Kate Cowle
Kate Cowle was a botanist, naturalist and conservationist active between c1890 and 1916 in Tasmania and Victoria, Australia.
Dr Liz James
Australian botanist and conservationist
Mary Anne Stebbing
British botanist and illustrator
Mary Vaux Walcott
In 2019, Smithsonian Data Science Lab fellow Tiana Curry found that dozens of botanical samples collected by natural historian, botanist, and artist Mary Vaux Walcott were listed under Mary’s husband’s name in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History database.
Jantina Tammes
Dutch botanist and geneticist Jantina Tammes was one of only 11 women students at the University of Groningen in 1890, where she was allowed to attend lectures but not take exams, culminating in a teaching diploma rather than a degree in science. She went on to be the first professor of genetics in the Netherlands (of any gender).
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.
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.