Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
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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.
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.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
1700s Italian painter, sculptor, and anatomist, and for many years held the chair of Anatomy at the University of Bologna
Dr Sarah S Windsor
1800s American doctor
Betty Komarek
A trained educator, botanist, and manager of prescribed burns and co-founder of Birdsong Nature Center, a model of biodiversity and environmental stewardship in the red hills of southwest Georgia.
Catherine Doyle
1800s Irish nun and military nurse
Shirley Bechervaise
Shirley Bechervaise was an Australian Army Nursing Sister during the second World War and was serving with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in France at the time of the Evacuation from Dunkirk.