Women in Science - How They Changed the World

Extraordinary Stories of Britain

Women in Science. Seven stories of women determined to bring their discoveries to the world. Hear about a pioneering fossil hunter who left us with a famous tongue twister, and the creator of the world’s first computer programme. Find out about a nurse who stopped hospitals from killing their patients, and the inventor who saved thousands of soldiers from gas poisoning. Hear how a brilliant chemist was robbed of a Nobel prize by her colleagues, and listen to the story of Britain’s first, and only, female Nobel winner.