Dr Mary O’Brien
1900s Irish missionary sister and doctor in Africa
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Georgina McCready
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.
Fanny Charsley
Fanny Charsley was an English botanical artist and collector who spent a decade in Australia (1856 – 1866). Shortly after she returned to England she published a book of her work on Australian wild flowers titled “The Wild Flowers around Melbourne” (1867).
Dr Eva Nelson
Eva Nelson worked in the research laboratories of Kodak (Australasia) from 1968 to 1976. She developed a new method of purifying one of Kodak’s used solvents.
Hilda Geissmann
Hilda Gladys Geissmann was a self-taught naturalist and nature photographer. Many of her specimens were greatly prized because of their rarity, beauty or quality and are housed in museums and herbariums throughout Australia and in the USA.
Daphne Goulston
Daphne Goulston was a Cancer Research Fellow at the University of Sydney 1928-1931, 1932-1934, at the Radium Institute London 1931-1932 and Research Associate in Biochemistry at the University of Sydney 1946-1949.
Florrie Quodling
Florrie Quodling was Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Sydney 1958-1962. Earlier she had been a demonstrator 1925-1945 and a lecturer 1945-1957. She worked on the crystallographic structure of minerals with D.P. Mellor.
Dr Jennifer Graves
Australian geneticist whose studies of the genetic diversity of Australia’s mammals explained the organisation, function and evolution of their genes. She is recognised for her work on the origin and evolution of human sex chromosomes, the inactivation of X chromosomes and the control of DNA synthesis in mammal cells.
Dr Ida Brown
Ida Brown lectured in palaeontology at the University of Sydney 1935-1950, continuing private field-work until 1965.
Dr Ethel Stoneman
Ethel Stoneman was director of the State Psychological Clinic in Western Australia from its inception in 1926 until it was disbanded in 1930. She was later in private practice in Melbourne.