Dr Florence Stoney
Irish medical doctor who was the first female radiologist in the United Kingdom
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Susan Fowler
Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment. Fowler worked at two technology startup companies before joining Uber in late 2015. In early 2017, her blog post on sexual harassment at the company went viral and ultimately led to the removal of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick. She runs a science book club and has written a book on microservices, a style of constructing applications as a collection of loosley coupled services. Fowler served as editor-in-chief of a quarterly publication by the payment processing company Stripe, and as a technology opinion editor at The New York Times.
Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and curator of the CSIRO herbarium.
Winifred Kennan
Winifred Kennan earned her MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1920, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. She worked with Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as its medical superintendent from 1921-1923 and later as honorary consultant obstetrician. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine on 11 June 1977.
Beatrice Hicks
Beatrice Alice Hicks was the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric, and co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers. Despite starting her career at a time when engineering was seen as inappropriate choice for women, Hicks held various leadership positions and eventually became the owner of an engineering firm. Hicks also developed a gas density switch that would be used by NASA, including the Apollo moon landing missions.
Susan Wyber Serjeantson
Professor Sue Serjeantson was a respected geneticist in the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research. Her research focused on inherited susceptibility to disease and the human immune response to organ transplantation. She was the first woman to be the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at ANU.
Dr Margaret Clark
Dr Margaret Clark practiced medicine in remote areas of Western Australia at Lake Grace, often working under difficult conditions. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 9 June 1949 for her services to medicine in isolated areas. A piece in The West Australian on 9 June 1949, noted that ‘she has ministered to isolated patients in a wide area, travelling in all weathers over lonely and difficult roads. She has preferred to remain at Lake Grace rather than move to another centre where the amenities would be much superior’. She was also a founding member of the Lake Grace branch of the Country Women’s Association.
Hertha Wambacher
Hertha Wambacher was an Austrian physicist who studied first chemistry, then physics at the University of Vienna.
Wambacher’s dissertation at the 2nd Physics Institute was supervised by Marietta Blau, with whom Wambacher would continue to collaborate after completing her Ph.D. in 1932. They worked together on the photographic method of detecting ionizing particles. Blau and Wambacher received the Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1937, for their studies at Vienna’s Institute for Radium Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. That same year, Blau and Wambacher jointly discovered “disintegration stars” in photographic plates that had been exposed to cosmic radiation at an altitude of 2300 m above sea level. These figures are the patterns of particle tracks from nuclear reactions (spallation events) of cosmic-ray particles with nuclei of the photographic emulsion.
Dr Janet Graeme Travell
Janet Graeme Travell was an American physician and medical researcher. She was the first woman to be appointed as the presidential physician, by John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Dr Marietta Blau
Dr. Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist who did pioneering work with the pion, a subatomic particle that is made up of quarks and antiquarks. Even though Dr. Erwin Schrodinger nominated Blau and her colleague Dr. Hertha Wambacher, for the Nobel Prize, the committee instead, awarded the prize to Dr. Cecil Powell for work that utilized Dr. Blau’s discoveries.