Judith Rees graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc 1965 and after teaching at Wye College in Kent returned to LSE as a lecturer, completing her PhD in 1978. Judith Rees moved to the University of Hull in 1989 becoming Dean of Geography and Pro-Vice Chancellor. After returning to LSE she was a Pro-Director 1998-2004, later becoming Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute.
As an undergrad in nuclear chemistry at Berkeley, Margaret Melhase discovered and isolated caesium-137.
Guatemalan engineer and diplomat Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman to earn an engineering degree in Central America, the first woman to be accepted and attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and Guatemala’s first female ambassador.
Dr. Emilie Snethlage dedicated all of her life to the study of Brazilian birds and to ethnological researches in the same country.
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For her internationally recognized work in cereal rusts, Margaret was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1942, only the second Canadian woman to be so honored.