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Jean Harslett

Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist

Doris Bardsley

Doris Bardsley was a nurse and midwife who worked for nearly 40 years in the Queensland public service in Australia.

Diana Dyason

Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974.

Joan Abbott

Joan Abbott was a nurse and midwife at hospitals in Brisbane and Canberra. She also served as a matron in the Middle East while enlisted by the Australian Army Nursing Service.

Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.

Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.

Dr Peggy Ozais-Akins

Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.

Naomi Chapman Woodroof

Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).

Nancy Harts Militia

The Nancy Harts militia, formed in LaGrange during the first weeks of the US Civil War (1861-65), was a female military unit organized by the wives of Confederate soldiers to protect the home front.

Elsie Inglis

Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.