Discovery Museum's exhibit celebrates women scientists
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Half of schools do not have a single girl doing A-level physics. To inspire women into science, Newcastle's Discovery Museum is holding a Trailblazers exhibition of portraits of remarkable females who have made their mark in a male-dominated field. It features British geneticist Kay Davies.
Rosalind Franklin was a British biophysicist who made a contribution to the understanding of the structure of DNA. She died of cancer in 1958, aged 37.
Inventor and scientist Lydia Arnold sat for this portrait in 1989. The portrait exhibition features groundbreaking females who have made their mark in science and technology over the past 250 years. It runs until the end of September.
British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 – 1994) won a Nobel Prize in 1964 for her work in mapping the structure of penicillin and deciphering the structure of insulin.
Born into privilege, the granddaughter of an Earl, Tyneside-based Rachel Parsons (1885-1956) - was a pioneering naval architect who was also the daughter of Charles Parsons, the inventor of the steam turbine.
Best known as the pioneer of birth control Marie Stopes (1880 – 1958), was also a palaeobotanist, an expert in fossil plants. A passionate women's rights campaigner, she died in 1958, aged 77.