Dr Kathryn Thornton
American astronaut and physicist
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Dr Tamara Jernigan
American astronaut and astrophysicist
Christine Charles
Christine Charles is known as an international authority on ion acceleration in expanding magnetised plasmas and its application to space engines and materials processing.
Dr France A Córdova
French-American astrophysicist and astronomer who has served as NASA’s chief scientist, president of Purdue University, chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Mayo Clinic trustee and director of the National Science Foundation
Dr Anneila I Sargent
American astronomer and astrophysicist
Inga Allison
Perfect brownies baked at high altitude are possible thanks to Colorado’s home economics pioneer Inga Allison
Cecilia Leary
Cecilia Leary was a geophysicist working in the Bureau of Mineral Resources from the 1950s to the 1970s. During the 1950s and 1960s she conducted aerial surveys.
Dr Bobbie Vaile
Bobbie Vaile was a senior lecturer in physics in the faculty of business and technology at the University of Western Sydney Macarthur. She was instrumental in forming the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Australia Centre there, launched in December 1995.
Dr Amanda Barnard
Australian scientist Dr Amanda Barnard’s research includes the possible risks of nanoparticles outside a laboratory environment.
Dr Nouria Salehi
In addition to her ongoing research in nuclear medicine, Nouria has travelled to Afghanistan many times, at the risk of her own life, to establish science teacher training programs, apprenticeships, literacy programs, and a range of other constructive initiatives, to drive change and empower young people and women and their communities.