Wilma Young

Wilma Young was an Australian World War II veteran, providing decades of community work with the RSL and war veterans.

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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.

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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.

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Leila Denmark

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.

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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.

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