Constance Ellis
Constance Ellis was the first women to graduate with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Melbourne (1903).
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Ruth Wilkinson
In 1917 she began a pharmaceutical apprenticeship with Frank Brooks, studying by correspondence. Long hours worked during the 1918 influenza epidemic meant that her studies were put on hold until the emergency was over. In 1921 Ruth Webb passed her final examinations, reputedly achieving the top marks in New Zealand. Unable to register as a pharmacist until aged 21, she had to wait until March 1922 before she could officially use the letters MPS after her name.
Theo Clemens Hall
Physician Theo Hall’s exceptional personality, capacity for work, professional competence, teaching skills and regard for patients’ needs earned her the respect and affection of all who knew her.
Dr Lee Berger
Australian biologist and veterinarian, who discovered during her PhD that the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis was responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species.
Dr Victoria Coffey
One of the first female paediatricians in Ireland
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
American translator and author
Dr Isabel Barrows
American editor and penologist
Sylvia Beach
In addition to owning and running the “bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company,” Beach spent her time advocating and networking for the writers and friends that were loyal to her shop.
Hannah Retter
Muaūpoko; founding mother, midwife
Eleanor Southey Baker McLaglan
New Zealand doctor