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Kathleen King

Irish botanist and bryologist

Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz

Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.

Olive Pink

It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.

Annie Massy

Irish marine biologist and ornithologist

Jean O’Neill

Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist

Dr Patricia Sheehan

Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power

Alice Bradley Sheldon

Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.

When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.