Gabriele Neuhäuser
Gabriele Neuhäuser collected mammals for the American Museum of Natural History in northern Australia from the late 1930s.
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Elizabeth Burchill
Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I’ve Trod.
Jean Carman
Jean Carman experimented with dyemaking from eucalypts and published Dyemaking with Eucalypts in 1978. She tested 240 species from all over Australia, documenting the colours produced in wool with different treatments.
Joan Burke
Irish nurse, politician and farmer
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Julia Walworth Long
Ohio temperance activist who helped organize two Presbyterian churches in Cleveland and devoted much time to social service
Lucinda Elizabeth Stewart Boyce
The first Euro-American woman to live permanently on San Juan Island, she also served as a community leader and role model for hundreds of women who braved the primitive conditions of the island’s early settlement years.
Turid Wik
Norwegian chemical engineer
Valeria Blakey
Possibly the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering in Australia, Valeria Blakey gained her Bachelors in Applied Science (Industrial Chemistry) from The University of Queensland, in 1950.
Tuanku Zara Salim
Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.