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Six female scientists who changed history: Beatrix Potter, Hedy Lamarr and the woman who saved America from thalidomide
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As well as being a Hollywood actress, Hedy Lamarr was an inventor who developed a radio guidance system for torpedoes and frequency hopping technology now used in wi-fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology.
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An author, an actress and more than one whose work was ripped off by men. On the first United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science, take a look at six female scientists who helped shape history.
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Keisler)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
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Ahead of International Women s Day on Monday March 8, get to know some of the figures who have made an incredible impact on our great county and the wider world.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Very few of us will be able to achieve a ‘first’ in any given field – unlike Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who was not only the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor, but was also the first woman to be elected as a mayor in England. In addition to this, she was also the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board, and the first dean of a British medical school.
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