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.
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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.
Dr Kate Campbell
Dr Kate Campbell was the first person to demonstrate a link between blindness in premature babies and oxygen levels in humidicribs.
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 Mary Hannan
Irish doctor
Ethna MacCarthy
Irish poet and paediatrician
Maura O’Donohue
Irish missionary doctor and public health campaigner
Dr Liane Russell
Austrian-American geneticist and environmentalist
Ellen Powell Thompson
American explorer and botanist
Belle Dibley Hawgood
Belle Dibley Hawgood made an important regional contribution to botany by collecting approximately 1,000 herbarium specimens, most from northern Ohio, over a period of more than forty years.