Jean Harslett
Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist
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Dr Peggy Ozais-Akins
Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.
Naomi Chapman Woodroof
Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).
Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
Betty Komarek
A trained educator, botanist, and manager of prescribed burns and co-founder of Birdsong Nature Center, a model of biodiversity and environmental stewardship in the red hills of southwest Georgia.
Doris Sinkora
Doris Sinkora was for 24 years a Technical Assistant at the National Herbarium of Victoria; appointed to undertake general curation duties, she soon developed an interest in algae that saw her become curator of those collections.
Dr Helen Ramsay
One of Australia’s foremost bryologists, focussing on cytology, taxonomy and distribution checklists, particularly of Bryaceae, Sematophyllaceae and Macromitrium
Helen Isobel Aston
Botanist recognised as an authority on Australian vascular aquatic plants.
Dr Gay E McKinnon
Australian botanist, geneticist and illustrator
Elizabeth Anne George
Australian botanist who published in 2002 her definitive study of the genus, with 100 paintings by Margaret Pieroni. In addition a reference collection of more than 1,400 herbarium specimens, assembled with the assistance of approximately 250 volunteers, was lodged with the Western Australian Herbarium.