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Fanny Osborne

From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They

Marianne North

English naturalist and flower-painter

Mary Wortley Montagu

English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

English traveller, ethnologist and author

Pauline Sperry

Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician who worked in projective differential geometry.

Winifred Deans

Winifred Deans graduated from Aberdeen and Cambridge. After a period in teaching she joined a Scottish publishing company and translated many important German scientific texts for them. After World War II she worked at the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition in Aberdeen.

Martha Shapley

Martha Shapley became a high school mathematics teacher. After marrying the astronomer Harlow Shapley she did outstanding research on eclipsing binary stars.

Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville wrote many works which influenced Maxwell. Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus led Adams to his investigation. Somerville College in Oxford was named after her.

Mary Taylor Slow

Mary Taylor Slow was a British mathematician and physicist who worked on the theory of radio waves and the application of differential equations to physics.

Gladys Mackenzie

Gladys Mackenzie graduated from the University of Edinburgh and became an assistant in the Natural Philosophy department. She moved to Newnham College Cambridge and late to Bristol University and Queen Elizabeth College London. She published papers on X-ray spectroscopy.