Dr Mary Amdur
Dr. Mary Amdur was a public health researcher who is known as the “mother of air pollution toxicology.”
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Jessie Spencer
Over 250 of Spencer’s botanical specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Emma Maud McCarthy
Dame Emma McCarthy was a highly decorated war-time nurse.
Sarah Carter
Sarah Carter collected botanical specimens largely from the Upper Hunter River region of New South Wales. Over 300 of Carter’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Margaret Browne
In 1893, she published the first Australian Garden Guide written by a woman, “The Flower Garden in Australia. A book for Ladies and Amateurs”.
Dr June Halliday
June Halliday was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, 11 June 1990, for service to medical science, particularly in the field of biochemical research.
Elizabeth Coxen
Elizabeth Frances Coxen was a naturalist and meteorologist who, together with her husband Charles, donated many natural history specimens to the Queensland Museum.
Charlotte Elizabeth Holding
Between 1880 and 1890 she collected plant specimens around Wentworth and along the Murray and Darling Rivers. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 350 of her specimens, as well as some collected by her daughter Lucy Edith Holding (1873 – 1919).
Jane Hellicar
Jane Hellicar was the first Nightingale-nurse to be employed as Lady Superintendent of any hospital in Queensland. In 1877 she was appointed to the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane, the second children’s hospital established in Australia.
Emma Oakden
Emma Oakden collected botanical specimens in eastern Tasmania, particularly in the Launceston district, in the 1880s. Over 250 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.