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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As a climate researcher, Dr. Alice Larkin is connecting her academic research to policies in various areas to help deal with a changing planet.
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Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets, and was the first professional female astronomer.
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Dr. Sunetra Gupta is an epidemiologist and a novelist, excelling in both science and art.
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Scientists used to think that the adult brain didn’t change, but Dr. Sandrine Thuret has shown that new neurons are still formed.
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