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Nessy Allen, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology Studies at the University of New South Wales, is engaged in a major project on eminent Australian women scientists. The main aim of the study, which is concentrated at present on the generation that worked during and after World War II, is to clarify the achieve-ments and contributions of women who have helped the advance-ment of science. Little is known of them, still less has been documented for posterity. A further aim is to discover not only how these scientists overcame the limitations of the cultural and intellectual climate of their time, but also how, in retrospect, they view their own experiences.