Olga May Goss

Olga May Goss (1916 to 1994) was an Australian plant pathologist whose research made the Australian agricultural industry more resilient through discoveries about plant diseases. Born in Perth, she won the statewide Science Exhibition in 1934 and graduated from the University of Western Australia with first class honours in 1937. She worked as a laboratory assistant and demonstrator at the university and as a pathologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, then moved to the Western Australia Department of Agriculture, where she worked from 1945 to 1980 and finished as Senior Plant Pathologist. She developed expertise especially concerning nematodes, and she was paid less than her male counterparts because she was a woman.