Alessandra Alberta Pucci
Alessandra Pucci was founder and chief executive of Australia’s first biotechnology company Australian Monoclonal Development (AMD).
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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.
Minna Hall
In 1896, co-founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Freda Bage
Freda Bage OBE MSc FLS, was lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland from 1913-1946, Principal of the Women’s College 1914-1946 and the first woman elected a Member of Senate 1923-1949.
Dr Toni O’Neill
Australian science teacher
Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya
Russian biologist and environmental activist
Dixy Lee Ray
Marine biologist, professor at the University of Washington, and director of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), from 1973 to 1975. First woman elected governor of Washington.
Dr Clara Marshall
In 1882 Dr. Clara Marshall became the first woman on the staff of the Philadelphia Hospital.