Regina Olson Hughes
American botanical illustrator
American botanical illustrator
American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.
Veena Sahajwalla is renowned for her research into the properties of carbon-bearing materials.
Irish republican and nurse
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.
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 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.
Edith Miriel Witt was the first female academic member of staff at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1943.
Australian plant physiologist and ethnobotanist
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.