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11 figures
Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 – 1994Solved the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin by X-ray.
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.
Iris Murdoch
1919 – 1999The Sovereignty of Good returned attention and love to moral philosophy.
Rosalind Franklin
1920 – 1958Photographed the shape of the molecule that makes us.
J. R. Worsley
1923 – 2003Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.
Peter Higgs
1929 – 2024Predicted the boson that gives particles mass, found 48 years later.
Stephen Hawking
1942 – 2018Hawking radiation and A Brief History of Time.
Tim Berners-Lee
b. 1955Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.