Florrie Quodling was Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Sydney 1958-1962. Earlier she had been a demonstrator 1925-1945 and a lecturer 1945-1957. She worked on the crystallographic structure of minerals with D.P. Mellor.
Ida Brown lectured in palaeontology at the University of Sydney 1935-1950, continuing private field-work until 1965.
Geophysicist Elizabeth Annette Essex-Cohen was one of the first women in Australia to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in physics.
Fanny Cohen was a first class scholar in geology and mathematics at the University of Sydney and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. She returned to Sydney and in 1929 became headmistress of Fort Street Girls’ High School.
American astronaut, geobiologist and geochemist
Cecilia Leary was a geophysicist working in the Bureau of Mineral Resources from the 1950s to the 1970s. During the 1950s and 1960s she conducted aerial surveys.
Beryl Nashar was Head, Department of Geology, Newcastle University College and University of Newcastle 1961-1980, Associate Professor 1964-1965, Professor of Geology 1965-1980 and Emeritus Professor since 1980.
Elizabeth Alexander was a geologist and radio astronomer who worked in radar in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
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.
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.