Dr Geraldine Richmond
American chemist and advocate for women in science
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Ann D Crocker
Professor of Pharmacology at Flinders University of South Australia whose areas of interest include disorders of brain function and the effects of drugs on the brain.
Beth Tuffley
Beth Tuffley was at the University of Queensland doing post-graduate work in biochemistry when she was selected as the inaugural winner of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Masson Award in 1941.
Bronwyn Adams
Bronwyn Adams graduated from Monash University in 1971 as the first female chemical engineer in Victoria, Australia.
Beryl Splatt
Beryl Splatt worked as a biochemist and metabolist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1923 to 1964 and also demonstrated in clinical biochemistry at the University of Melbourne from 1940 to 1961.
Anne Bermingham
Anne Bermingham was a chemist appointed to the staff of the Museum of Applied Science in Melbourne in 1952 to establish a radiocarbon dating facility for the Museum.
Ann Cameron
Ann Cameron was a toxinologist whose research focussed on the anatomy and toxinology of venomous fishes, especially stonefish and the venomous tropical and sub-tropical fish of the Pacific Ocean, and the interaction between coral and fish.
Dr Virginia Holsinger
Virginia H. Holsinger was an American chemist known for her research on dairy products and food security issues.
Ruth deForest Lamb
Her untiring efforts to engage and acknowledge the activism of women’s groups in support of a new statute bore fruit as women shaped many provisions of the new law passed to replace the Wiley Act: The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Dr Effie Alberta Read
Effie Alberta Read, Ph. D., M. D., one of very few women in the FDA’s Bureau of Chemistry when she joined the agency in 1907, was among the best trained analysts when she arrived.