Jane Plant
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.
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Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Judy Butland
Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.
Dr Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
In 1891, Dr. Hurd-Mead established the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls, the first institution in Baltimore to employ women physicians.
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.
Dr Elizabeth Gordon Heij
Australian botanist
Elizabeth Killick
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Dr Elizabeth Laverick
British electronics engineer