Dr Anne Astin
Australian pioneer for women in biochemistry and advocate for rural women
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Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.
Lt. Col. Juanita Redmond Hipps
Juanita Redmond Hipps trained as a nurse at South Caroline State Hospital and joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was sent to Manila, in the Philippines soon after joining.
Celeste Bowe
Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Dr Fannie Almara Quain
Dr. Fannie Quain earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1898 and was a co-founder of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association (now the American Lung Association of North Dakota).
Dr Jane Stocks Greig
Jane Greig was a founder of the Victorian Medical Women’s Society and the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was a medical officer (and from 1929 Chief Medical Officer) with the Victorian Department of Education providing medical services for schoolchildren.
Dr Hannah Mary Helen Sexton
Hannah Sexton, in 1892, became the third women to graduate MB BS from the University of Melbourne. In 1896 she helped found the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children and was the leader of surgical work until 1908.
Dr Janet Greig
Janet Greig was one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and one of the first woman anaesthetists in Victoria.
Dr Jean Laby
In 1959 Dr Jean Laby became the first woman to receive the Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics at the University of Melbourne.