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Joan Penridge

Australian nursing educator

As one of very few PhD-prepared nurses working in higher education in nursing in Australia in the early 1980s, she was well positioned to play a leading role in the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to higher education.

Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green

Lorna Lloyd-Green was one of the first female obstetricians and gynaecologists working in Melbourne, Australia in the first half of the twentieth century.

Lorna Green

Lorna Green, a graduate of the University of Adelaide in Australia, was a Lecturer in Human Histology there, and was on the staff from the mid-1920s to the 1960s.

Maida Allan

Maida Allan collected insects, reptiles and mammals from 1936 to 1938 for the Queensland Museum. One of her most significant finds was the burrowing skink Lerista allanea which is thought to now be extinct.

Leila Asche

Leila Asche worked in the field of microbiology for over forty years. Her work was recognised by the Australian Society for Microbiology in 1991 with a Distinguished Service Award.

Dianne Davidson

Australian viticulturist and company director

Elsie S Ott

In September 1941, Ott joined the Army Nurse Corps. Later, she commissioned as a second lieutenant and had assignments in Louisiana, Virginia and India. During her assignment to Karachi, Ott participated in the first air evacuation, where crews evacuated patients to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Kathleen Sherrard

Kathleen Sherrard took an active role in a number of women’s organisations in Australia, particularly women graduates and scientific workers and published a number of articles on palaeontology.