Alice Catherine Evans

While working at the Bureau of Animal Industry, Evans began investigating the bacteria Bacillus abortus, which was known to cause miscarriages in animals.

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Gentile Budrioli

Gentile Budrioli was an influential astrologist and herbal healer in 1400s Bologna, renowned for her skills, a close friend of the ruler’s wife, and even briefly a councillor at the Bolognese court.

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Dr Joyce Daws

Joyce Daws worked in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 14 June 1975, for her services to medicine.

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Helen Veshosky

Helen Veshosky volunteered for the US Army Nurse Corps in 1944 and commissioned as a second lieutenant. After a brief training period, she deployed to England to begin her work as an Army nurse.

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Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green

Lorna Lloyd-Green was one of the first female obstetricians and gynaecologists working in Melbourne, Australia in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Elsie S Ott

In September 1941, Ott joined the Army Nurse Corps. Later, she commissioned as a second lieutenant and had assignments in Louisiana, Virginia and India. During her assignment to Karachi, Ott participated in the first air evacuation, where crews evacuated patients to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.

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Judith Parker

As one of very few PhD-prepared nurses working in higher education in nursing in Australia in the early 1980s, she was well positioned to play a leading role in the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to higher education.

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