Florence Martin
Australian physicist from the 1890s
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Phyllis Nicol
Phyllis Nicol was a demonstrator in physics, University of Sydney 1927-1933, a tutor in physics at the Women’s College 1934-1945 and finally a lecturer in physics 1946-1964. She co-wrote the book “Physics: Fundamental Laws and Principles”.
Dr Elwyn Morey
Elwyn Morey was “probably the best-known child psychologist in Australia”.
Dr Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow
Australian psychologist Jacqueline Goodnow’s research covered areas such as the distribution of work responsibilities in the family, the origins and outcomes of beliefs about parents, and the intergenerational transmission of social values.
Dr Mary O’Brien
1900s Irish missionary sister and doctor in Africa
Ida O’Dwyer
Ida O’Dwyer served in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She served in Egypt and was in charge of the Nurses’ Hospital in London and was head sister of the No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station in France. From 1920 to her retirement in 1938 O’Dwyer was matron of the Caulfield Military Hospital.
Georgina McCready
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.
Fanny Charsley
Fanny Charsley was an English botanical artist and collector who spent a decade in Australia (1856 – 1866). Shortly after she returned to England she published a book of her work on Australian wild flowers titled “The Wild Flowers around Melbourne” (1867).
Dr Eva Nelson
Eva Nelson worked in the research laboratories of Kodak (Australasia) from 1968 to 1976. She developed a new method of purifying one of Kodak’s used solvents.
Hilda Geissmann
Hilda Gladys Geissmann was a self-taught naturalist and nature photographer. Many of her specimens were greatly prized because of their rarity, beauty or quality and are housed in museums and herbariums throughout Australia and in the USA.