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Ruby Payne Scott black and white image

Ruby Payne-Scott [1912-1981]

Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.

Nancy Burbidge

Nancy Tyson Burbidge [1912-1977]

Biography Nancy Burbidge was a systematic botanist and Curator of the Herbarium, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry. She published Flora […]

Helen Newton Turner

Helen Alma Newton Turner [1908-1995]

Biography Helen Alma Newton Turner graduated Bachelor of Architecture with Honours from the University of Sydney in 1930 during the […]

Christine O'Keefe

Christine O’Keefe

Biography Christine O’Keefe completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Adelaide in 1981, and a Bachelor of Science […]

Catherine Money

Catherine Anne Money

Biography Catherine Anne Money (nee Menzies) was born in Melbourne, Australia on 18 August 1940. Her father was Douglas Ian […]

Rachel Makinson

Kathleen Rachel Makinson

Kathleen Rachel Makinson (nee White) was the first woman at CSIRO to become a Chief Research Scientist (in the Division […]

Liz Dennis

Elizabeth Salisbury (Liz) Dennis

Biography Elizabeth Salisbury Dennis was born in Sydney, Australia on 10 December 1943. The eldest of three girls, she grew […]

Beth Fulton

Elizabeth (Beth) Fulton

Biography Beth Fulton obtained her BSc (with first class Honours jointly in Mathematics and Marine Biology) from James Cook University […]

Betty Allan, CSIRO's first statistician

Frances Elizabeth (Betty) Allan [1905-1952]

Biography Betty Allan is acknowledged as being CSIRO's first statistician. She joined the then Council for Scientific and Industrial Research […]

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