Dr Taisa Demediuk
Dr Taisa Demediuk began her chemistry career amidst the upheavals of wartime Western Europe. In 1950s Australia, she applied her great intellect and character to almost a decade of research at the CSIRO.
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Dr Shirley Jeffrey
Dr Jeffrey was a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO’s marine biochemistry unit between 1971 and 1977. From 1977 to 1981, she was a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography and then Acting Chief of the CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research (1981-84). In 1991, she became a Chief Research Scientist.
Enid Plante
Enid was one of the first assistant research officers and, in fact, the first female appointed to the Physical Chemistry Section of the CSIR Division of Industrial Chemistry at the age of 21.
Dr Jenny Stauber
Dr Stauber received CSIRO’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for her “exceptional science leadership and landmark research on the bioavailability and toxicity of metals underpinning the national water and sediment quality guidelines for environmental protection in Australia and globally”.
Dr Joy Bear
Australian chemist and the first woman to be awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Leighton Medal.
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