Inge Lehmann
A 1929 earthquake led Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann to theorize (correctly) about the structure of the Earth’s core
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Anne Baker
1800s English linguist, natural historian and illustrator
Maria Wilman
South African botanist who created the museum garden and rock garden in the Kimberley Public Gardens
Marion Rice Hart
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator
Martine de Bertereau
1600s French mineralogist and mining engineer
Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou
She is thought to be one of the first Nigerien women to pursue a career in the sciences and headed the mineralogy division of SOMAIR, the national mining company of Niger. She is the first wife of former President Mahamadou Issoufou (‘First Lady’ 2011-21) and has used her influence to improve access to health care in her country.
Isabel Bassett Wasson
Yellowstone’s first woman park ranger, in 1920
Euphemia Ross
Physicist and pioneer of the kindergarten movement in Western Australia.
Dr Irene Crespin
Irene Crespin was Commonwealth palaeontologist from 1936. She travelled widely in Australia and to Java and Sumatra carrying out important research. Crespin collected fossils for analysis and studied rock and sediment formations.
Isabel Clifton Cookson
Isabel Cookson was Research Fellow in Botany, University of Melbourne 1952-1959. She was world renowned for her research which included fossil plant studies.