Eva Shipton
Eva Adeline Shipton was the founder of what has become known as Sydney Diagnostic Services, when she commenced her private pathology practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1928.
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Dorothy Forsaith
Dorothy Frances Forsaith was Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1924 to 1927. In 1936 she was appointed Honorary Director, then Administrator of the Australian Red Cross’s Blood Transfusion Service.
Gertrude Urquhart Grogan
Gertrude Grogan was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), New South Wales, during the Second World War.
Dr Rita Stang
Rita Stang was medical officer of schools in the Western Australian Public Health Department from 1925, and supervisor of infant health in Western Australia from 1929, until her retirement in 1955. She worked to improve hygiene and children’s diets and put many measures into place to assist families in isolated areas with mothercraft.
Gwladys Yvonne McKeon
Gwladys Yvonne McKeon was a biologist with a passion for Australia’s marine environment.
Dr Fauriel Lockett
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.
Charlotte Grace O’Brien
Irish social reformer and writer
Roberta Williams
Roberta Lynn Williams was one of the most influential personal-computer-game designers of the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the “Mother” and “Queen” of video adventure games.
Hilda Gardner
Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.
Ethel Jessie Bowe
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.