Georgina Ferry

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Biochemist who helped to draw up guidelines for recombinant-DNA technology and championed women in science

August 01, 2024 | 08:00PM

Maxine Singer obituary: biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination
Professional pride and personal tragedy stymied ideas about how infections spread in the nineteenth century, suggests a show about maverick Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis

August 02, 2023 | 08:00PM

Dr Semmelweis review: Mark Rylance play shows how hand washing saved hundreds of lives
A compilation of 550 original plates reveals the dedicated work of the nineteenth-century woman who was the first to publish a book with cyanotypes of specimens

July 30, 2023 | 08:00PM

Anna Atkins: pioneering botanical photographer who captured algae and ferns in ghostly blue images

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