Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
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Jane Franklin
When her husband was sent to Tasmania as Governor in the 1830s and 40s, she travelled widely, improved the wretched conditions that female prisoners endured, encouraged the building of schools for boys and girls, commissioned a temple, and founded a museum.
Jeanne Baret
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Philomena Ryan
Irish chemist
Eva Philbin
Irish chemist and university professor
Doris Reynolds
Irish geologist
Dr Ella Webb
Irish paediatrician
Cynthia Longfield
Irish entomologist and traveller
Lavinia Loughridge
Irish nephrologist and physician
Dr Daphne Pochin Mould
Irish geologist, author, photographer and flight instructor