Dr Mazlan Othman
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.
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Lin Lanying
Lin Lanying’s work laid the foundation for the development of microelectronics and optoelectronics in China. She started a new research field and attracted the world’s attention to her research on the space growth of gallium arsenide crystals and their properties.
Dr Anna Dmitrievna Gelman
20th century Russian chemist and engineer, who was the first to synthesise alkene complexes of platinum, discovered heptavalent states of plutonium and other actinides and created and improved processes for radionuclide production.
Marion Rice Hart
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator
Helen Megaw
Irish crystallographer and pioneer in X-ray crystallography
Anne Kernan
Irish-American particle physicist
Euphemia Ross
Physicist and pioneer of the kindergarten movement in Western Australia.
Florence Martin
Australian physicist from the 1890s
Phyllis Nicol
Phyllis Nicol was a demonstrator in physics, University of Sydney 1927-1933, a tutor in physics at the Women’s College 1934-1945 and finally a lecturer in physics 1946-1964. She co-wrote the book “Physics: Fundamental Laws and Principles”.
Edith Nelson
Edith Nelson was a Lecturer in Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne 1948-1953. She had taught in the department in 1923 as a demonstrator and 1924-1948 as a senior demonstrator.