Gwen Wilson
Gwen Wilson was the first woman to earn an Australian Postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthesia.
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Doris Goy
Doris Alma Goy was an avid collector of plants, especially ferns, in Australia. She has named seven fern types and published a series of articles in top naturalist journals with C.T. White on Queensland ferns.
Gwen Burbidge
Australian matron, teacher, reformer, activist and advocate for nurses and nursing
Florinda Ogilvie
Florinda Ogilvie was a medical social worker and a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1943-1949. The University holds an archival collection of her personal records dating from 1937 to 1968.
Emmie Russell
Emmie Russell was an early practitioner in Australia of orthoptics, the study of eye movement and the treatment of vision disorders.
Danuta Krystyna Knihinicki
Danuta Khihinicki was an Australian acarologist whose main focus was on mites in the superfamily Eriophyoidea, particularly their taxonomy.
Ellen Clark
Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia’s crustacea.
Constance Amy Fall
During the Second World War she was Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Tasmania Line of Communication Area and matron-in-charge of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Forces.
Dr Elizabeth White
Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment in the 1930s.
Elizabeth Carrington Pope
Elizabeth Pope was an Australian marine zoologist highly-regarded for her research on the effect of sea temperatures and latitude on the distribution and abundance of intertidal organisms on rocky shores.