Dr Marilyn Anderson
Australian researcher in plant biochemistry and genetics.
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Eleanor Stodart
Eleanor Stodart worked in the CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research and later authored and illustrated many nature and science books for children, including the acclaimed ‘Australian Junior Field Guides’ series, campaigned tirelessly for quality science books, took a leading role in the Children’s Book Council of Australia, and was editor of the journal ‘Reading Time’.
Dr Joyce Daws
Joyce Daws worked in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 14 June 1975, for her services to medicine.
Dr Jessie Boyd Scriver
Dr. Jessie Boyd Scriver was one of the first women to study medicine at McGill University in Canada.
Edwina Cornish
Edwina Cornish is a biotechnologist who played a key role in establishing one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited, in the 1990s. The company developed and commercialised some of the world’s first genetically modified plants.
Dorothea Frey
Dorothea Frey was an Australian pathologist, medical mycologist and author.
Dr Manjula O’Connor
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.
Dr Dorothy Steane
Research scientist on the phylogeny, population genetics and evolution of eucalypts (family Myrtaceae), who has also pursued molecular phylogenetic studies of other plant families including Lamiaceae, Ericaceae, Rutaceae and Orchidaceae.
Kliti Grice
Internationally renowned organic geochemist and world-leading authority on molecular fossil and stable isotope geochemistry.
Helen Veshosky
Helen Veshosky volunteered for the US Army Nurse Corps in 1944 and commissioned as a second lieutenant. After a brief training period, she deployed to England to begin her work as an Army nurse.