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Who should be on the new £50?

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brizzledrizzle · 02/11/2018 11:18

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.

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Alarae · 02/11/2018 14:23

I would like David Attenborough. One for the living Grin

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eddiemairswife · 02/11/2018 14:27

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

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IAmNotLikeThem · 02/11/2018 14:28

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

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DawgLover · 02/11/2018 14:31

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.

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Figural · 02/11/2018 14:33

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.

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beeefcreep · 02/11/2018 14:37

Another vote for Rosalind Franklin.

The unsung hero of the discovery of DNA

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RiskIt4Biscuit · 02/11/2018 14:37

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.

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EerieSilence · 02/11/2018 14:39

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

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chocolateworshipper · 02/11/2018 17:43

Dale Winton Grin

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Clionba · 02/11/2018 17:56

Ada Lovelace
Rosalind Franklin

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Nanny0gg · 02/11/2018 18:16

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

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Devillanelle · 02/11/2018 18:44

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

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Ohshitwhatnext · 27/11/2018 15:47

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

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BunsOfAnarchy · 27/11/2018 15:52

Mary Seacole

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BillytheMountain · 27/11/2018 15:53

Mary Wolstonecraft or Mary Berry would both get my vote

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

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hippy1952 · 27/11/2018 16:27

Anybody except Wicked Witch of Downing Street Maggie Thatcher!

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Brahumbug · 28/11/2018 08:54

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

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claracluck78 · 28/11/2018 10:22

Alan Turing or Mary Anning

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