Belinda Gillies
Belinda Jane Gillies worked in the Birds section of the Museum of Victoria from 1979 to 1992 and was Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (now Birds Australia) from 1988 to 1992.
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Dr Belle Bruce Reid
Belle Reed is regarded as the first formally recognised female veterinary surgeon in the world. In 1906 she graduated from the Melbourne Veterinary College, was accepted as a member of the Veterinary Board of Victoria, and established her own Veterinary Practice in Melbourne.
Anne Bermingham
Anne Bermingham was a chemist appointed to the staff of the Museum of Applied Science in Melbourne in 1952 to establish a radiocarbon dating facility for the Museum.
Dr Anne Kelso
Anne Kelso has fostered the development and commercialisation of Australian vaccine technologies and placed Australia in the forefront of global influenza surveillance, research and pandemic preparedness.
Dr Annie Hensley
Dr Annie Hensley was appointed coordinator of the Melbourne City Council’s first campaign to combat dyptheria in 1924.
Annie Ina Laidlaw
Annie Laidlow served in India with the Australian Army Nursing Service during WWI. Between the wars Laidlow continued to work at the Royal Children’s Hospital, rising to the position of lady superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section. When the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service was established in 1942, Laidlow was appointed superintending sister and head of the service.
Annie Bellew McCann
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Annie Richards
Annie Richards collected plants between the mid-1870s and the 1890s which she sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 400 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Annie Moriah Sage
Annie Moriah Sage’s distinguished military nursing career in the Second World War included the introduction of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service Training Scheme and she was closely involved in the planning and establishment of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps as an integral part of the Australian Regular Army and the Citizen Military Forces.
Dr Aola Mary Richards
Aola Richards was an renowned entomologist much of whose research was on the taxonomy of cave crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) of Australia and New Zealand.