As a professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Molly Stevens is also the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College.
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In 1843, photographer and botanist Anna Atkins became the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs.
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Before she was enthralling children with tales of a mischievous rabbit Beatrix Potter was delving deep into the world of mycology.
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Discovering pulsars, a type of neutron star, Dr. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, changed the way we understood the death of massive stars. That instead of the supernova explosion scattering all of a dying star’s material into the universe there is a very small core of very dense material left over that gives off regular radio pulses.
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Since 2014 Dr. Joanna Haigh has been the co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College.
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When it was suggested that Marie Curie’s husband had actually been the one to discover the element radium Hertha Ayrton, a friend and colleague, quickly and publicly came to Curie’s defense stating, “errors are notoriously hard to kill, but an error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat.” And she would know as she often faced the same misattribution of credit being given to her husband.
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Male students petitioned to have Elizabeth Garrett removed from their school, but she still went on to become Britain’s first female physician.
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On May 18th, 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she traveled to the MIR space station.
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With her studies of the effects of mustard gas, Dr. Charlotte Auerbach helped create the science of mutagenesis.
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Dr. Charlotte Angas Scott spent her lifetime challenging the status quo in regards to women in mathematics and was able to help pave the way for many female mathematicians.
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