Maude Delap
Irish naturalist and marine biologist
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Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and ornithologist
Dr Katharine Jeannette Bush
American zoologist
Mary Ball
Irish entomologist and conchologist
Aleen Cust
Irish veterinary surgeon and first female member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Elizabeth Joan Batham
Batham was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1962. She also served a term as president of the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society in 1966. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1960 and to reader in 1967.
Patricia Marjorie Ralph
Marine biologist Pat Ralph specialised in marine hydroids, which before she began publishing were little studied in New Zealand; she published five seminal papers on the thecate hydroids of New Zealand between 1957 and 1961. Her pioneering work won worldwide recognition and in 1962 she received the rarely given DSc; she was the first woman on the staff of Victoria University College to receive the degree.
Eleanor Anne Ormerod
English naturalist and entomologist
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.