Dr Joanne Daly
CSIRO Chief of Entomology
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Helen Alma Newton Turner
Internationally recognised for her work on sheep breeding.
Dr Joy Bear
Australian chemist and the first woman to be awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Leighton Medal.
Dr Mary Ann Augustin
Prominent CSIRO scientist whose main area of research is in protein structure and immunoparasitology.
Dr June Olley
Internationally recognised seafood technologist and advocate for women’s education, who was among the first to devise a scientific methodology for predictive microbiology.
Dr Ruth Milne Hall
Australian microbiologist whose genetics research has provided insight into the transfer and evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
Dr Lee Berger
Australian biologist and veterinarian, who discovered during her PhD that the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis was responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species.
Ruby Payne-Scott
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.
Mary Ward
Irish artist, naturalist, and astronomer
Catherine Anne Money
Australian biochemist who simplified the preparation of hides in Australian tanneries, now used globally to minimise tannery effluents and maximises hide quality