Daphne Goulston
Daphne Goulston was a Cancer Research Fellow at the University of Sydney 1928-1931, 1932-1934, at the Radium Institute London 1931-1932 and Research Associate in Biochemistry at the University of Sydney 1946-1949.
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Florrie Quodling
Florrie Quodling was Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Sydney 1958-1962. Earlier she had been a demonstrator 1925-1945 and a lecturer 1945-1957. She worked on the crystallographic structure of minerals with D.P. Mellor.
Dr Jennifer Graves
Australian geneticist whose studies of the genetic diversity of Australia’s mammals explained the organisation, function and evolution of their genes. She is recognised for her work on the origin and evolution of human sex chromosomes, the inactivation of X chromosomes and the control of DNA synthesis in mammal cells.
Dr Ida Brown
Ida Brown lectured in palaeontology at the University of Sydney 1935-1950, continuing private field-work until 1965.
Dr Ethel Stoneman
Ethel Stoneman was director of the State Psychological Clinic in Western Australia from its inception in 1926 until it was disbanded in 1930. She was later in private practice in Melbourne.
Dr Gwendolyn Nash
Nash worked as a medical officer in Hong Kong 1933-1938, before leaving for Britain with her family. Returning to Australia at the outbreak of World War II, Nash proceeded to hold a number of positions in the medical field, leading to five years working for the mental health department, which ended with her setting up private practice as a consulting psychiatrist.
Ethel Gray
Ethel Gray enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Australian Imperial Force, on 9 February 1915 as matron. Over the subsequent five years Gray was matron of several hospitals in England and France, returning to Australia in 1920.
Dr Margaret Harper
Paediatrician and the first woman to be appointed to the honorary staff of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; the Medical Officer of the first baby clinic established in New South Wales (1914); the first Director of the Mothercraft Homes and Nurses’ Training Schools; the first person to differentiate between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis.
Evelyn Paget Evans
Evelyn Paget Evans became secretary of both the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and the Australian Massage Association (1917), which later became the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Beatrice Gubbins
Irish watercolour artist and traveller