Frances Gillam Holden
Frances Holden was Lady Superintendent of the Hospital for Sick Children, Sydney from 1880 to 1887, during which time she published works on medicine and nursing training as well as verse and prose.
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Jennifer Seberry
Jennifer Roma Seberry is Professor and former Head, Department of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong.
Mollie Horadam
During World War II she worked at the Rolls-Royce factory, mathematically modelling the stress in aircraft engines, while undertaking an engineering from the University of London at night.
Evelyn Conyers
Evelyn Conyers was a highly regarded war-time nurse. She served in Egypt and Greece for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during 1914-1915 and was promoted to matron.
Lucy Osburn
Lucy Osburn was Lady Superintendent of the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (later Sydney Hospital) 1868-1884 and the founder of Nightingale nursing in Australia.
Harriette Biddulph
Harriette Biddulph was a prolific collector of botanical specimens of which she sent many to the Government Botanist of Victoria, who named Hemigenia biddulphiana and Astrotriche biddulphiana in her honour.
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop is a physicist who is recognised internationally for her work in laser physics, linear and nonlinear high resolution spectroscopy, laser micromanipulation, atom cooling and trapping and nano-optics. =
Edith Baker
During the Second World War she was a member of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nursing Service, rising to the position of area matron.
Elizabeth Gould
1800s natural history illustrator
Harriet Scott
Natural history illustrator whose paintings earned high praise from the Entomological Society and she was elected, like her sister Helena, as an honorary member.