Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and curator of the CSIRO herbarium.
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Winifred Kennan
Winifred Kennan worked with Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as its medical superintendent from 1921-1923 and later as honorary consultant obstetrician.
Beatrice Hicks
Beatrice Alice Hicks was the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric, and co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers.
Susan Wyber Serjeantson
Professor Sue Serjeantson was a respected geneticist in the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research.
Dr Margaret Clark
Dr Margaret Clark practiced medicine in remote areas of Western Australia at Lake Grace, often working under difficult conditions.
Hertha Wambacher
Austrian physicist who jointly discovered “disintegration stars”
Dr Janet Graeme Travell
Janet Graeme Travell was an American physician and medical researcher. She was the first woman to be appointed as the presidential physician, by John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Dr Marietta Blau
Dr. Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist who did pioneering work with the pion, a subatomic particle that is made up of quarks and antiquarks. Even though Dr. Erwin Schrodinger nominated Blau and her colleague Dr. Hertha Wambacher, for the Nobel Prize, the committee instead, awarded the prize to Dr. Cecil Powell for work that utilized Dr. Blau’s discoveries.
Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett
Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett OBE was a New Zealand doctor. She served as the Chief Medical Officer of a medical unit during World War I and was later awarded an O.B.E. for her services in improving the health of women and children.
Kitty O’Brien Joyner
Kitty O’Brien Joyner joined the NACA, the precursor to NASA, in 1939 as an electrical engineer after graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA). She was the first woman to graduate from UVA’s engineering program and the NACA’s first female engineer.