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Ālenush Teriān

Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist Ālenush Teriān has been called the ‘Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy’.

Ellen Kettle

Ellen Kettle worked in medical services, particularly for Indigenous people in Australia’s Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea.

Wáng Zhènyì

Qing dynasty scientist Wang Zhenyi accomplished much in her short life, excelling particularly in astronomy, mathematics and poetry.

Dorothy Pattison

English surgical nurse who had sole charge of a hospital in Walsall.

Martha G Kimball

American philanthropist and war nurse

Sybil Kathigasu

Malysian Eurasian nurse and midwife during WWII who assisted resistance to the Japanese occupation of Malaya.

Alice Scharff

Alice helped her husband’s zoological studies as both collector and writer, and compiled the twenty-five-year author index of the Irish Naturalist (February 1915).

A graduate of the RUI, Jane Scharff gained a technical assistantship at the NMI in 1905, later becoming assistant naturalist. She took part in the Clare Island survey and became a recognised authority on the marine and fresh-water sponges of Ireland. She also wrote papers on coelenterates and corals.