Enid Lucy Robertson
Enid Robertson was a systematic botanist whose roles at both the Waite Agricultural Research Institute and the Department of Botany at the University of Adelaide included as curator of their herbaria.
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Helen Isobel Aston
Botanist recognised as an authority on Australian vascular aquatic plants.
Dr Gay E McKinnon
Australian botanist, geneticist and illustrator
Jessie Ferguson
Jessie Ferguson worked for Barrett Brothers and Burston, maltsters, 1937-1974, retiring as chief analytical chemist.
Daphne Elliott
Australian biochemist whose research included investigation of cyanide-resistant respiration in mitochondria of some plant species.
Elizabeth Anne George
Australian botanist who published in 2002 her definitive study of the genus, with 100 paintings by Margaret Pieroni. In addition a reference collection of more than 1,400 herbarium specimens, assembled with the assistance of approximately 250 volunteers, was lodged with the Western Australian Herbarium.
Martine Rothblatt
Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.
Ilma Brewer
Ilma Brewer was Lecturer in Botany/Biology, University of Sydney 1963-1970 and Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences 1970-1978.
Euphemia Ross
Physicist and pioneer of the kindergarten movement in Western Australia.
Colonel Kathy Ann C Baptiste-Jones
Col. Kathy Ann C. Baptiste-Jones helped start the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado.