Albinia Brodrick
Irish republican and nurse
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Gloria Ray Karlmark
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools, she later founded and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Computers in Industry, an international journal of computer science and engineering.
Dr Beryl Nashar
Beryl Nashar was Head, Department of Geology, Newcastle University College and University of Newcastle 1961-1980, Associate Professor 1964-1965, Professor of Geology 1965-1980 and Emeritus Professor since 1980.
Beryl Splatt
Beryl Splatt worked as a biochemist and metabolist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1923 to 1964 and also demonstrated in clinical biochemistry at the University of Melbourne from 1940 to 1961.
Miriel Witt
Edith Miriel Witt was the first female academic member of staff at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1943.
Beth Gott
Australian plant physiologist and ethnobotanist
Barbara Fawkes
Barbara Fawkes trained as a nurse and midwife at the Middlesex Hospital School of Nursing, England, 1934-1938. She continued her nursing career into the post-World War II era.
Barbara Rosemary Hardy
Barbara Hardy was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia, 26 January 1987, for service to conservation and the community.
Jane Guerin
Jane Guerin was a plant collector who between 1860 and 1874 collected specimens around the family property ‘Pigeongrove’, Vasse, Western Australia, as well as Geographe Bay and the Geraldton and Murchison districts. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her collections, including some type specimens.
Dr Barbara York Main
Barbara Main is one of Australia’s foremost experts on the taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of spiders, particularly trapdoors and funnelwebs.