Dr Joy Bear
Australian chemist and the first woman to be awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Leighton Medal.
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Dr June Olley
Internationally recognised seafood technologist and advocate for women’s education, who was among the first to devise a scientific methodology for predictive microbiology.
Catherine Anne Money
Australian biochemist who simplified the preparation of hides in Australian tanneries, now used globally to minimise tannery effluents and maximises hide quality
Ellen Swallow Richards
American sanitary chemist, educator, and author
Brigid Cotter
Irish chemist and barrister
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize
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.
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