Wáng Zhènyì
Qing dynasty scientist Wang Zhenyi accomplished much in her short life, excelling particularly in astronomy, mathematics and poetry.
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Dorothy Pattison
English surgical nurse who had sole charge of a hospital in Walsall.
Martha G Kimball
American philanthropist and war nurse
Sybil Kathigasu
Malysian Eurasian nurse and midwife during WWII who assisted resistance to the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Alice Scharff
Alice helped her husband’s zoological studies as both collector and writer, and compiled the twenty-five-year author index of the Irish Naturalist (February 1915).
Jane Scharff
A graduate of the RUI, Jane Scharff gained a technical assistantship at the NMI in 1905, later becoming assistant naturalist. She took part in the Clare Island survey and became a recognised authority on the marine and fresh-water sponges of Ireland. She also wrote papers on coelenterates and corals.
Eleonora Fleury
Irish medical doctor
Nina Muir
New Zealand doctor
Kathleen Lonsdale
Irish X-ray crystallographer and pacifist
Dr Emily Dickson
Irish doctor