Isabel Thorne
English midwife and one of the Edinburgh Seven
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Kay Thorne
Technical assistant who worked on Australia’s first digital stored-program computer, CSIRAC.
Dr Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall
Scottish physician and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Emily Bovell
Scottish physician and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Judith Dey
Australian pediatrician
Dr Liz James
Australian botanist and conservationist
Dr Marian Breland Bailey
Marian Ruth Kruse Breland Bailey was a pioneer in the field of animal behavior.
Kate Cowle
Kate Cowle was a botanist, naturalist and conservationist active between c1890 and 1916 in Tasmania and Victoria, Australia.
Dr Virginia Anne Rice Williams
Biochemist Virginia Anne Rice Williams helped develop more nutritious grains through her pioneering studies of rice; she conducted important research on the B-vitamin content of rice, on ways to keep rice from turning rancid in storage, and on the vitamin fortification of rice.
Esther Lape
Lesbian journalist who was part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s inner circle