Catherine Anne Money
Australian biochemist who simplified the preparation of hides in Australian tanneries, now used globally to minimise tannery effluents and maximises hide quality
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Ellen Swallow Richards
American sanitary chemist, educator, and author
Brigid Cotter
Irish chemist and barrister
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch was an Argentinian-English-American mathematician and biochemist famous for her use of mathematical techniques to deduce protein structure.
Suzanne Cory
Suzanne Cory is one of Australia’s most distinguished molecular biologists. Her research has had a major impact in the fields of immunology and cancer.
Aila Inkeri Keto
In 1982 she and and her husband formed the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, of which she has been President for the past 30 years.
Shirley Aldythea Marshall Seymour Andrews
Aboriginal rights activist, Biochemist, Communist, dancer and historian
Bettye Washington Greene
Industrial research chemist Bettye Washington Greene was an early African American pioneer in science. She was the first African American female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company, where she researched latex and polymers.
Elsa Beatrice Kidson
Elsa Beatrice Kidson became a world leader in the research into magnesium deficiency in apples, and did extensive work on the vitamin C content of fruits, the relationship between calcium deficiency and the disease bitter pit in apples, and the link between mineral constituents and nutritional diseases in tomatoes. Her research was of fundamental significance to horticulture and, especially, to the fruit-growing Nelson region.