Amy Castle
Amy Castle was the first entomologist and the first woman appointed in a professional role in a New Zealand museum. She was also one of the first women to be employed in a scientific position in the New Zealand public service.
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Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an Italian physicist and one of the earliest women to gain a position in an Italian university.
Emma Hutchinson
Emma Hutchinson (1820-1906) was an important and highly-valued figure within the entomological community.
Dr Gretna Weste
Awarded a University of Melbourne Doctor of Science (DSc) degree in 1984 for her published papers and made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989 for her scientific contributions, Weste was the foremost authority on this virulent plant pathogen in Australia.
Clara Weekes
Physician and zoologist Claire Weekes was the first woman to earn a doctorate of science at the University of Sydney, and a long-time advocate for women’s rights.
Suzanne Cory
Suzanne Cory is one of Australia’s most distinguished molecular biologists. Her research has had a major impact in the fields of immunology and cancer.
Aila Inkeri Keto
In 1982 she and and her husband formed the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, of which she has been President for the past 30 years.
Shirley Aldythea Marshall Seymour Andrews
Aboriginal rights activist, Biochemist, Communist, dancer and historian
Joan Wiffen
Joan Wiffen was a self-taught palaeontologist who greatly advanced knowledge of fossil reptiles in New Zealand. Wiffen, who described herself as ‘a rank amateur, a Hawkes Bay housewife in fact, with no scientific training, just … a great deal of curiosity’, made some of New Zealand’s most important scientific breakthroughs. Despite a lack of formal education or specialised equipment, Joan’s excavations of fossil remains in a remote Hawke’s Bay valley produced the first evidence that dinosaurs had once lived on the New Zealand landmass.
Pérrine Moncrieff
In 1925 Pérrine wrote New Zealand birds and how to identify them. Although she intended her book for the untrained bird-lover, it influenced scientists as well as lay people and ran to five editions.