Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander was a geologist and radio astronomer who worked in radar in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
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Dr Claudia J Alexander
Dr. Alexander’s role in the Rosetta mission, the first to land on a comet, was not her only triumph. She was also a project manager on NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and was a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a researcher, Alexander’s studies included the evolution and interior physics of comets, Jupiter and its moons, magnetospheres, plate tectonics, space plasma, the solar wind and the planet Venus. She wrote or co-authored 14 papers.
Jane Plant
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.
Ella F Boyd
A teacher, an amateur geologist, an officer in the Boston Society of Natural History and the Agassiz Association, and a member of the Hyde Park school board for fifteen years.
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
Elisa Leonida was one of the first formally-recognised female engineers in Europe.
Dr Marjorie Apthorpe
Geologist who worked for over forty years as a paleontologist in the petroleum industry.
Georgina King
Georgina King was self-taught and developed an interest in geology. However, she propounded eccentric theories and was frustrated by lack of recognition by scientists and learned societies. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds almost 300 of King’s specimens.
Florence Collins
Florence Collins, geologist and aviator, was a woman of adventure and an important part of Denali National Park and Preserve’s long history of scientific research.
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
Prominent American educator and naturalist, best known for her significant contributions to the field of education, particularly for women, and for co-founding Radcliffe College, which later became part of Harvard University.
Dr Kathryn D Sullivan
American geologist, former NASA astronaut, and oceanographer