Eleanor Anne Ormerod
English naturalist and entomologist
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Alice Lee
Alice Lee was awarded a D.Sc. in 1899, and had an outstanding career as a statistician working in both Bedford College and University College in London. Her work was important in disproving the belief that skull size was related to intelligence, the argument that was being used at that time to “prove” women were intellectually inferior to men.
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch was an Argentinian-English-American mathematician and biochemist famous for her use of mathematical techniques to deduce protein structure.
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.
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.
Adrienne Clarke
Professor Adrienne Clarke is an Australian scientist whose research contribution to the field of plant genetics, and to commercial ventures that developed from that research, is recognised nationally and abroad.