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.
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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.
Dr Ida Brown
Ida Brown lectured in palaeontology at the University of Sydney 1935-1950, continuing private field-work until 1965.
Emily Dunn
Emily Dunn is one of two Yorkshirewomen running their own quarries in the first half of the 20th century, the other being Anne Greaves.
Dr Marjorie Apthorpe
Geologist who worked for over forty years as a paleontologist in the petroleum industry.
ReBecca Hunt-Foster
American paleontologist who has worked with dinosaur remains from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous of the Colorado Plateau, Rocky Mountains, Southcentral, and the Southwestern United States of America.
Julie A Meachen
Vertebrate paleontologist and morphologist who studies mammalian carnivores and megafauna from the late Pleistocene period (10,000 years ago) to the present day.
Charlotte Hill
Colorado fossil insects and plants collector in the 1880s
Rachel Benton
Paleontologist with the US National Park Service
Eleanor Barbour Cook
American paleontologist