Faith Thomas
Indigenous Australian nurse, cricketer and hockey player
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Ida Lee
Ida Lee was an historical geographer who wrote several books on maritime exploration in the Pacific.
Dr Joan Feynman
Astrophysicist who studied auroras
Franziska Boas
Pioneering dancer, percussionist, teacher, ethnologist, and therapist
Jennie Shirreff
1800s Canadian nurse, businesswoman, and philanthropist
Betty Jeffrey
Agnes Betty Jeffrey was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service when she was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Agnes Lions
Agnes Mary Lions was one of four founders of the New South Wales College of Nursing (NSWCN) in 1949.
Dr Miruna Achim
Mexican researcher and academic
Dr Alice Ettinger
In 1959, Dr. Alice Ettinger became the first chair of radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.