Margaret Blackwood
Australian botanist and geneticist, and an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II
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Dr Jacqueline Stewart Falconer
Jacqueline Stewart Falconer studied physiology at University College, London. Awarded a B.Sc. she was appointed as a Demonstrator in Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of King’s College London in 1941. In 1944 she was appointed as a lecturer in the Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Newcastle.
Jessica U Meir
American astronaut
Dr Sangeeta Bhatia
A biomedical researcher, MIT professor, and biotech entrepreneur, she has invented human microlivers to study drug metabolism and liver disease as well as nanoparticles that help diagnose, study, and treat ailments like cancer.
Floy Agnes Lee
Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.
Dr Maude Abbott
In 1936, Dr. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease, which became the definitive reference guide to the subject.
Alessandra Alberta Pucci
Alessandra Pucci was founder and chief executive of Australia’s first biotechnology company Australian Monoclonal Development (AMD).
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist
Jane Plant
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.