Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke
Caring for soldiers, she declared that the officers were sufficiently looked after, and she would work where most needed. And they were ardently devoted to “Mother” Bickerdyke.
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Tarquinia Molza
Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar
Mabel Te Aowhaitini Mangakāhia
The most eminent and successful Māori nurse of her day
Fanny Osborne
From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They
Marianne North
English naturalist and flower-painter
Mary Wortley Montagu
English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
English traveller, ethnologist and author
Pauline Sperry
Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician who worked in projective differential geometry.
Winifred Deans
Winifred Deans graduated from Aberdeen and Cambridge. After a period in teaching she joined a Scottish publishing company and translated many important German scientific texts for them. After World War II she worked at the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition in Aberdeen.
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville wrote many works which influenced Maxwell. Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus led Adams to his investigation. Somerville College in Oxford was named after her.