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#1650061
She's an engineer, and proud of it. I'm not sure she's ever claimed to be a scientist, nor indeed a mathematician although she's clearly quite good at mental arithmetic.

Also, she's not dead, which I think I recall was one of the criteria ..
#1650249
Pete L wrote:New Scientist favours Dorothy Hodgkin. Gets my vote.


:thumright:

ISTR, the subject of the (Telegraph ?) headline at the time, something like "Oxford housewife gets Nobel prize" :roll: