Dr Emilie Snethlage
Dr. Emilie Snethlage dedicated all of her life to the study of Brazilian birds and to ethnological researches in the same country.
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Lucy Everest Boole
Irish chemist
Dorrit Hoffleit
American astronomer
Fátima de Madrid
Astronomer and writer
Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Sophia Brahe
Danish astronomer
Margaret Newton
For her internationally recognized work in cereal rusts, Margaret was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1942, only the second Canadian woman to be so honored.
Antonia Maury
American astronomer
Dr Beatrice Tinsley
American astronomer
Alice Wheatley
Alice Wheatley was awarded the ARRC in 1944 for her work in charge of the first nursing party of RAAF nurses in New Guinea. In 1951 Wheatley was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her work in the RAAF Nursing Service.