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.
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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
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.