Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurobiologist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
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Ann Katharine Mitchell
Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the Germans’ Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Dr Florence Stoney
Irish medical doctor who was the first female radiologist in the United Kingdom
Mary Applebey
Mary Frances Applebey was an English civil servant and mental health activist.
Susan Fowler
Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment.
Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and curator of the CSIRO herbarium.
Winifred Kennan
Winifred Kennan worked with Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as its medical superintendent from 1921-1923 and later as honorary consultant obstetrician.
Beatrice Hicks
Beatrice Alice Hicks was the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric, and co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers.
Susan Wyber Serjeantson
Professor Sue Serjeantson was a respected geneticist in the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research.