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World War I

Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WW1 trenches of poisonous gas

Ayrton was the first woman to recieve the Hughes Medal for outstanding research in the field of energy, but still the Royal Society refused her membership

Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever

She survived world wars, anti-Semitism, and decades of exposure to early radiochemistry