Who should be on the new £50?

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I expect it will be Stephen Hawking but who do you think it should be?

A female scientist (plenty to chose from, they have to be deceased though) would be good for a change.

I would like David Attenborough. One for the living

Rosalind Franklin, who would have won the Nobel Prize along with Crick And Watson if she had lived.

Second David Attenborough. After all, why do they have to be dead?

I always assumed the reason they must be dead is to limit the risk of the chosen person doing something disreputable after the time and resource has been spent putting them on the notes.

I'm going to have to toss a coin to decide between Ada Lovelace and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Or perhaps I'd rather an opportunity came long later to put them both on smaller denomination notes, because they're much more used than £50 and many more people have the opportunity to see them.

I don't remember the last time in my seven decades when a £50 note crossed my path.

Another vote for Rosalind Franklin.

The unsung hero of the discovery of DNA

Nigel Lawson or Nadine Dorries. In these Brexit times, why would we need a scientist or expert, when opinions of people like Nigel Lawson and Nadine Dorries count for just as much?

On a serious note, Dorothy Hodgkin or Stephen Hawking.

Boris Johnson. Or Jacob Reese-Mogg, holding a poster with the Irish address of Somerset Capital.

Dale Winton

Ada Lovelace
Rosalind Franklin

Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is sometimes regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of a "computing machine" and the first computer programmer

Aw I didn't realise they had to be dead. I was hoping for Chris Packham.

How about Margaret Thatcher? - she's on the 'short' list.

Mary Seacole

Mary Wolstonecraft or Mary Berry would both get my vote

Mary Seacole was not a scientist pp. Definitely should be a Mary though.

Anybody except Wicked Witch of Downing Street Maggie Thatcher!

A pioneering female scientist who is almost completely overlooked is Caroline Herschel the astronomer.

Alan Turing or Mary Anning