Dora Metcalf
British entrepreneur, mathematician and computing pioneer
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Ute Roessner
Professor Roessner is one of Australia’s foremost plant scientists and a world leader in the field of metabolomics – the detection and quantification of small molecule metabolites in biological materials.
Dr Valerie L Thomas
Dr Thomas was an integral part of the early Landsat digital image processing team, making Earth observation from space a reality.
Louisa Gauvain
1910s British amateur filmmaker
Anne Blunt
Despite suffering through a tumultuous marriage to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Lady Anne became incredibly accomplished through her passions for writing, travel, and horses.
Dr Louise Eisenhardt
During her lifetime, Dr. Louise Eisenhardt was considered one of the foremost neuropathologists in the world.
Dr Margaret Craighill
In 1943, Dr. Margaret Craighill was the first woman to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army.
Dr Ruth Bishop
Professor Ruth Bishop was the first person to discover the virus that causes gastroenteritis in the 1970s.
Dr Rhea Seddon
Astronaut and medical doctor
Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown
Australian doctor; director of the Victorian Health Department’s section of infant welfare 1926-1946. She wrote books on the care of infants and young children and her 1937 report for the National Health and Medical Research Council prompted government funding of the Lady Gowrie Child Centres.