Danuta Krystyna Knihinicki
Danuta Khihinicki was an Australian acarologist whose main focus was on mites in the superfamily Eriophyoidea, particularly their taxonomy.
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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.
Dr Fiona Wood
Australian plastic surgeon whose knowledge of treating burns became prominent immediately after the Bali bombings in 2002.
Dr Almah J Frisby
Early 1900s American physician
Ina Watson
Ina Watson worked professionally as Publicity Officer for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in Victoria, but all her spare time was devoted to birds. She was an excellent field observer and photographer who contributed both photographs and text to a number of nature journals and published natural history stories for children including Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird (1946).
Eva Shipton
Eva Adeline Shipton was the founder of what has become known as Sydney Diagnostic Services, when she commenced her private pathology practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1928.
Dr Fauriel Lockett
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.