Ethel Currie

Ethel Dobbie Currie FRSE FGS FGSG DSc (4 December 1899 - 24 March 1963) was a Scottish geologist and one of the first women to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the first woman to receive the Society's Neill Prize (1949).

Her first publication was a joint paper with Professor John Gregory on fossil sea-urchins.

[4] Her contributions were acknowledged by the Geological Society of London and she was awarded its Wollaston Fund.

[5][6] In 1952 she was elected the first female President of the Glasgow Geological Society, in succession to Neville George.

[7] Professor John Gregory invited her to assist with the care and arrangement of the geological collections in the Hunterian Museum after her graduation.