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Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882Explained the whole of life with one mechanism: descent with modification.
Marie Stopes
1880 – 1958Opened Britain's first birth-control clinic; the charity still operates in 37 countries.
Alexander Fleming
1881 – 1955Penicillin; antibiotics have saved an estimated 200 million lives.
Alan Turing
1912 – 1954Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.
Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley
1914 – 1998Explained the nerve impulse in mathematical terms.
Francis Crick
1916 – 2004Co-described the double helix and the central dogma of molecular biology.
Rosalind Franklin
1920 – 1958Photographed the shape of the molecule that makes us.