Vivian Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service in May 1941 and sailed to Singapore. She survived ‘The Bangka Island Massacre,’ where she was shot in the back and pretended to be dead until the Japanese soldiers left. She spent more than three years a prison camp.
The first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-1912. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-1923 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-1946.
Pioneering Belgian physician, the first woman to graduate in medicine from Ghent University.
American chemist best known for her work on the development of easy-care cotton, a fabric that could resist wrinkles and stains.
African-American chemist Alice Augusta Ball developed the “Ball Method”, the most effective treatment for leprosy of the early 20th century, but her work went unrecognised for many years because her white, male advisor stole her work after her untimely death at age 24.
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield was a self-taught artist, colour researcher, amateur scientist, and writer.
Helen Boyle (1869-1957) was Brighton’s first woman GP and transformed the lives of working-class women in the area through her ground-breaking treatment of mental illness.
Frenchwoman who treated the sick and injured in 1930s Egypt
Romanian-Hungarian science writer
German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.