June Griffith
June Griffith worked with A.E. Alexander from 1950-1964, before being appointed lecturer and later senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She undertook research into the chemistry and physics of wool.
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Dr Margaret Reid
Margaret Reid is a physicist noted for her pioneering work on new, fundamental tests of quantum theory with her development of inferred Heisenberg inequalities.
Dr Rachel Makinson
Australian scientist Rachel Makinson was a Chief Research Officer, CSIRO Division of Textile Physics 1979-1982. She was a known authority in textile physics, particularly in wool felting friction and shrink proofing.
Dorothy McFadden Hoover
Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Inge Lehmann
A 1929 earthquake led Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann to theorize (correctly) about the structure of the Earth’s core
Margaret Geller
American astrophysicist
Harriet Brooks
Canadian nuclear physicist
Margot Dorenfeldt
One of the first two women chemical engineers to graduate from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1919
Dr Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel-winning physicist
Dr Mazlan Othman
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.