Dr Cathy Foley
Dr Foley became Australia’s ninth Chief Scientist in January 2021.
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Dr Taisa Demediuk
Dr Taisa Demediuk began her chemistry career amidst the upheavals of wartime Western Europe. In 1950s Australia, she applied her great intellect and character to almost a decade of research at the CSIRO.
Dr Christine O’Keefe
Australian mathematician and computer scientist who’s worked on finite geometry, information security, and data privacy.
Dr Shirley Jeffrey
Dr Jeffrey was a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO’s marine biochemistry unit between 1971 and 1977. From 1977 to 1981, she was a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography and then Acting Chief of the CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research (1981-84). In 1991, she became a Chief Research Scientist.
Enid Plante
Enid was one of the first assistant research officers and, in fact, the first female appointed to the Physical Chemistry Section of the CSIR Division of Industrial Chemistry at the age of 21.
Mary Ward
Irish artist, naturalist, and astronomer
Catherine Anne Money
Australian biochemist who simplified the preparation of hides in Australian tanneries, now used globally to minimise tannery effluents and maximises hide quality
Dr Phyllis Clinch
Irish btoanist
Dr Victoria Coffey
One of the first female paediatricians in Ireland
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
American translator and author