Matilda Cullen Knowles
Irish botanist
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Kathleen King
Irish botanist and bryologist
Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz
Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.
Annie Massy
Irish marine biologist and ornithologist
Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Dr Patricia Sheehan
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
Dorothy Stopford-Price
Irish paediatrician
Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.