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For International Women's Day 2022 Nominate

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Beanutz2115 Tue 08-Mar-22 07:59:00

She accomplished the research before Watson and Crick who took the credit for the research.

Beanutz2115 Tue 08-Mar-22 07:55:39

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

Oldwoman70 Tue 08-Mar-22 07:41:19

Hannah More - writer, poet, and philanthropist. Campaigned for social reform, female education and the abolition of slavery.

FannyCornforth Tue 08-Mar-22 07:36:37

Brilliant idea for a thread.
Thanks trisher.
I have my thinking cap on…

trisher Tue 08-Mar-22 07:34:56

Could everyone nominate a woman whose acheivements have never been fully recognised or rewarded the way they would have been if they'd been a man.
They can be living or dead.
I'm going for Mo Mowlam, a great politician, negotiator and peace maker who deserved the Nobel Peace prize for N Ireland but 2 men got it.