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20th-century Australian women scientists

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Ruby Payne-Scott
Australian radio astronomer (1912-1981)
Elizabeth Kenny
Australian nurse (1880-1952)
Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Australian botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (1912–1977)
Helen Mayo
Australian doctor
Maisie Carr
Australian ecologist (1912–1988)
Winifred Mary Curtis
British–Australian botanist (1905-2005)
Barbara G. Briggs
Australian botanist
Rica Erickson
Western Australian writer, historian, botanist and artist (1908-2009)
Isabel Clifton Cookson
Australian botanist and palaeobotanist (1893–1973)
Adrienne Clarke
Australian plant geneticist & botanist (1938 -)
Mary Wade
Australian paleontologist and geologist (1928-2005)
Rosina Dafter
Australian astronomer
Bobbie Vaile
Australian astronomer
Jenny Graves
Australian geneticist
Ilma Grace Stone
Australian botanist (1913-2001)
Barbara York Main
Australian arachnologist (1929-2019)
Sophie Charlotte Ducker
German-Australian botanist (1909–2004)
Alma Theodora Lee
Australian botanist (1912-1990)
Judith Lean
Australian-American solar and climate scientist, Physics Researcher
Alison Marjorie Ashby
Australian botanical artist and plant collector (1901-1987)
Rose Amal
Indonesian-Australian chemical engineer
Betty Louise Turtle
Australian astronomer and physicist
Joyce Winifred Vickery
Australian botanist, botanical collector, agrostologist, and conservationist (1908-1979)
Eleanor Marion Bennett
botanist
Dora Lush
Australian bacteriologist
Irene Crespin
Australian paleontologist and researcher (1896–1980)
Elsie Dalyell
Australian medical doctor (1881-1948)
Patricia Selkirk
Australian plant biologist and ecologist
Lucy Bryce
Australian haematologist and physician (1897-1968)
Margaret Blackwood
(1909-1986) botanist and geneticist
Susan Lesley Barrell
British-Australian meteorologist
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Polish Australian physicist
Joan Cribb
Australian botanist (1930–2023)
Isobel Bennett
Australian biologist (1909-2008)
Pauline Ladiges
Australian botanist (born 1948)
Jean White-Haney
Australian botanist (1877-1953)
Joyce Allan
Australian conchologist, curator, and scientific illustrator (1896–1966)
Ethel Irene McLennan
Australian botanist and educator (1891-1983)
Mabel Josephine Mackerras
Australian zoologist and parasitologist (1896-1971)
Rachel Makinson
Australian physicist (1917–2014)
Joan Freeman
Australian physicist
Ada Mary à Beckett
Australian biologist, academic and educationist (1872-1948)
Margaret M. Davies
Australian herpetologist
Mary Campbell (Mollie) Dawbarn
Australian biochemist and nutritional physiologist
Joy Thompson
Australian botanist (1923-2018)
Una Lucy Fielding
Australian neuroanatomist (1888-1969)
Judith Roderick Wheeler
Australian botanist
Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer
Australian librarian and botanist (1893-1979)
Mary E. White
Australian paleobotanist and author (1926-2018)
Helena Scott
Australian artist (1832–1910) and botanical collector for Ferdinand von Mueller (1832–1910)
Audrey Cahn
Australian microbiologist and nutritionist (1905–2008)
Olive Pink
Australian botanical illustrator, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for aboriginal rights (1884-1975)
Suzanne Mary Prober
Australian botanist
Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider
German-Australian physicist and philosopher
Lindy W. Cayzer
Australian botanist
Mary Harriet Bate
Australian botanist (1855-1964)
Suzanne Duigan
Australian paleobotanist
Alexandra Szalay
Australian anthropologist