Edna Sayce was a demonstrator in physics at the University of Sydney 1917-1918 and lecturer 1923. She was a lecturer at the in physics at the Sydney Teachers College 1919-1922 and later a science teacher at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney 1940-1945.
Geophysicist Elizabeth Annette Essex-Cohen was one of the first women in Australia to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in physics.
Australian schizophrenia researcher
Cynthia Johnson was a research assistant at the University of Tasmania 1941-1942.
During World War II she worked at the Rolls-Royce factory, mathematically modelling the stress in aircraft engines, while undertaking an engineering from the University of London at night.
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop is a physicist who is recognised internationally for her work in laser physics, linear and nonlinear high resolution spectroscopy, laser micromanipulation, atom cooling and trapping and nano-optics. =
American astronaut and physicist
Carla Fasano was the first woman to be appointed professor at the University of Wollongong (1985).
American astronaut and physicist
American astronaut and astrophysicist