Ellen Hayes

Ellen Hayes was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was one of the first female American professors.

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Philippa Fawcett

In 1890 Philippa Fawcett came top in the Mathematical Tripos Examinations at Cambridge, being placed “ahead of the first Wrangler”.

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Marie Mildred Clay

Marie Clay was an influential literacy researcher and educationalist whose pioneering Reading Recovery programme changed the experience of learning to read for many children in many countries.

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Margaret Kissling

The Kisslings established a Māori girls’ boarding school in buildings which Bishop G. A. Selwyn had purchased from William Spain at Kohimarama (Mission Bay).

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Janet Paterson Frame

For more than 20 years Frame had been annually nominated by PEN (the New Zealand Society of Authors) for the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted twice, the second time in 2003, the year she was diagnosed with leukaemia. That year, along with Hone Tuwhare and her biographer Michael King, Frame was the recipient of an inaugural Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.

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