Dr Gwen Donald
Gwen Donald was one of eight women among seventy medical graduates at the university of Melbourne in 1944.
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Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays
US Army Veteran Anna Mae Hays was the first woman in the US military to be promoted to a general officer rank.
Gwen Wilson
Gwen Wilson was the first woman to earn an Australian Postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthesia.
Doris Goy
Doris Alma Goy was an avid collector of plants, especially ferns, in Australia. She has named seven fern types and published a series of articles in top naturalist journals with C.T. White on Queensland ferns.
Gwen Burbidge
Australian matron, teacher, reformer, activist and advocate for nurses and nursing
Florinda Ogilvie
Florinda Ogilvie was a medical social worker and a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1943-1949. The University holds an archival collection of her personal records dating from 1937 to 1968.
Emmie Russell
Emmie Russell was an early practitioner in Australia of orthoptics, the study of eye movement and the treatment of vision disorders.
Danuta Krystyna Knihinicki
Danuta Khihinicki was an Australian acarologist whose main focus was on mites in the superfamily Eriophyoidea, particularly their taxonomy.
Ellen Clark
Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia’s crustacea.
Constance Amy Fall
During the Second World War she was Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Tasmania Line of Communication Area and matron-in-charge of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Forces.