Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
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Annie Massy
Irish marine biologist and ornithologist
Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Dr Patricia Sheehan
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
Dorothy Stopford-Price
Irish paediatrician
Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
Jeanne Baret
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Philomena Ryan
Irish chemist
Eva Philbin
Irish chemist and university professor