Jane Goodall
Renowned primatologist
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Constance Margaret Eardley
Constance Eardley, a systematic botanist, was a Lecturer in Botany, at the University of Adelaide 1933-1971 and Curator of the two university herbaria. She also conducted her own research, in the areas of sphagnum bogs, swamp vegetation, arid zone plants and cytology.
Bettye Dixon
Australian meteorologist
Dr Beverley Raphael
Beverley Raphael was a psychiatrist who held chairs at the Australian and the Universities of Queensland, Western Sydney and Newcastle. Much of her research was centred on exploring psychiatric vulnerability, trauma, grief and preventive psychiatry.
Christine Charles
Christine Charles is known as an international authority on ion acceleration in expanding magnetised plasmas and its application to space engines and materials processing.
Dr Christine Lambkin
Christine Lambkin is an entomologist whose research interests are in the systematics, evolution, taxonomy, and biodiversity of Diptera, particularly beeflies (Bombyliidae) and stiletto flies (Therevidae).
Clara Wehl
Clara Wehl collected plants from across southeast South Australia up until the 1890s and sent them to her brother in Melbourne. Over 150 specimens survive in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Constance Davey
Constance Davey was a psychologist in the South Australian Education Department from 1924 after having studied in Adelaide and in England. She was active in child welfare and training, and lectured in Psychology at the University of Adelaide 1927-1950.
Dr Irena Grasberg Koprowska
1964: Dr. Irena Koprowska was the first woman appointed to a full professor at Philadelphia’s Hahnemann Medical College.
1966: Dr. Irena Koprowska co-authored a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear.
Dr Jane E Hodgson
1970: Dr. Jane Hodgson was the first doctor convicted of performing an abortion in a hospital, when she challenged Minnesota law (Hodgson v. Minnesota).