IOP president Jocelyn Bell Burnell voted most inspirational living woman scientist of all time

IOP president Jocelyn Bell Burnell was voted one of the most inspirational living woman scientists of all time in a current online poll run by the New Scientist.

Marie Curie (1854-1923), notably, the first European woman to be awarded a doctorate in science, Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), the chemist who did much of the groundwork for James Watson and Francis Crick’s Nobel-prizewinning discovery of the structure of DNA and Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415) who wrote treatises on geometry, algebra and astronomy in Roman Alexandria before being murdered by a Christian mob for her critisim of religion, were voted the top three inspiration femals scientists, making Bell Burnell, who was ranked four, the top living woman scientist in the poll.

To view the poll, click here.