New £50 note British scientist nominations released by Bank of England
The Bank of England has released the list of over 800 people nominated to appear on the new £50 notes so far, including Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and Rosalind Franklin
THE Bank of England has published the list of scientists who have been nominated to have their face on the new £50.
Nominations don't close until December 14, but already the bank has had 114,000 votes for 803 eligible candidates.
Well known names on the list include Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and Rosalind Franklin.
Also featured are Professor Stephen Hawking, Dorothy Hodgkin and Frederick Sanger, as well as Magnus Pyke and Marie Stopes.
Margaret Thatcher also appears on the list, who used to work for food company J Lyons.
There are more than three times more men on the list than women. Men have over 600 nominations, while women have just shy of 300.
Who are some of the front runners?
Bookmakers William Hill have published their odds for each of the potential £50 note front-runners.
Stephen Hawking - 2/7
The bookie's favourite is Professor Stephen Hawking with odds of 2/7.
The theoretical physicist and cosmologist emerged as a favourite straight after the announcement, with Professor Brian Cox lending his endorsement.
Alan Turing - 5/1
He is celebrated as the father of theoretical computer science and a pioneer of artificial intelligence. He was also one of the Bletchley Park codebreakers who deciphered Nazi messages during World War II.
Alexander Fleming - 6/1
Mr Fleming is a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin.
Dorothy Hodgkin - 6/1
The chemist's 1964 achievement of winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry made her the first and only British woman to take the coveted honour. Today, in 2018, she still retains that record.
Her pioneering work on X-ray crystallography revealed the 3D structures of penicillin and insulin. The work led the way for greater treatment for diabetics.
Michael Faraday - 6/1
A British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
Ada Lovelace - 9/1
Despite dying at the age of 36 in 1852, she is regarded by some as having been the first computer programmer.
She worked on an early general-purpose computer named the Analytical Engine, recognising its potential as more than just calculations.
How will the winner be chosen?
The public has until December 14 to continue nominating scientists. You can nominate someone .
People are being asked to make suggestions via the Bank's website of an eminent late scientist from fields such as biology, astronomy and medical research.
If they are British, no longer living and are not fictional, then they are in with a chance.
Since the selection process was launched on November 2, the bank has received a total of 174,112 nominations. But only 114,000 of these were for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria.
Once nominations have closed the names will be considered by the Banknote Character Advisory Committee.
This is made up of four experts in the field of science: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Dr Emily Grossman, Professor Simon Schaffer and Dr Simon Singh.
They will join the permanent members on the Committee in creating a shortlist from the range of suggestions put forward by the public.
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, will then make a choice from the shortlist and the final decision will be announced in 2019 alongside a concept design for the new note.
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Why are the £50 notes changing?
Mark Carney announced earlier this year that the new polymer note will celebrate British achievement in science.
The note will be the last upgraded to a plastic polymer version.
The new £50 will replace the current paper note which features industrial revolution pioneers Matthew Boulton and James Watt.
There's no precise release date yet, but it should be available by 2020.
Both Stephen Hawking and Ada Lovelace have been on the bookies' shortlists since the new note was announced.
The shortlist so far
NOMINATIONS for scientists to go on the new £50 note will stay open until December 15. Here's the 803 people who've made the list so far:
- Abraham Darby
- Abraham Manie Adelstein
- Ada Lovelace
- Agnes Arber
- Alan Archibald Campbell‐Swinton
- Alan Arnold Griffiths
- Alan Baker
- Alan Blumlein
- Alan F Mitchell
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
- Alan Powell Goffe
- Alan Turing
- Alec Reeves
- Alexander Fleming
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Kellas
- Alexander Parkes
- Alexander Todd
- Alexander William Williamson
- Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
- Alfred Fowler
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Alice Grace Cook
- Alice Lee
- Alice Stewart
- Alice Vickery
- Alicia Boole Stott
- Alister Hardy
- Allen Coombs
- Allen McClay
- Alliott Verdon Roe
- Alma Howard
- Ambrose Fleming
- Andreas Vesalius
- Andrew Crosse
- Andrew Fielding Huxley
- Anita Harding
- Ann Bishop
- Ann McNeill
- Anna Atkin
- Anna Bidder
- Anna Freud
- Anna MacGillivray Macleod
- Anne McLaren
- Anne Warner
- Annie Lorrain Smith
- Annie Maunder
- Anthony Ledwith
- Archibald McIndoe
- Archibald Vivian Hill
- Archie Cochrane
- Archie Edmunston Roy
- Arnold Tustin
- Arnold Wilkins
- Arthur Cayley
- Arthur Duncan Gardner
- Arthur Eddington
- Arthur George Tansley
- Arthur Hill Hassall
- Arthur Holmes
- Arthur Rowledge
- Arthur Schuster
- Arthur Scott Lodge
- Arthur Storer
- Arthur Thomas Doodson
- Aubrey Manning
- Audrey Ursula Smith
- Augustus de Morgan
- Austin Bradford Hill
- Barbara Ansell
- Barbara Clayton
- Barnes Neville Wallis
- Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling
- Beatrice de Cardi
- Beatrice Tinsley
- Benjamin Huntsman
- Benjamin Thompson
- Bernard Lovell
- Bernard Spilsbury
- Bertha Swirles
- Bertram Hopkinson
- Bertrand Russell
- Bill Frost Welsh
- Bill Penney
- Bill Tutte
- Brian Marsden
- Brian Pippard
- Brigitte Askonas
- Brook Taylor
- Bryan Donkin
- Bryan Kibble
- Caroline Haslett
- Cecil Frank Powell
- Cecilia Helena Payne‐Gaposchkin
- Cesar Milstein
- Chaim Weizmann
- Charles Alfred Coulson
- Charles Babbage
- Charles Barkla
- Charles Bunn
- Charles David Marsden
- Charles Eryl Wynn‐Williams
- Charles Fritz
- Charles Hawkes Todd
- Charles Henry Wordingham
- Charles Hesterman Merz
- Charles Kuen Kao
- Charles Lyell
- Charles Mackintosh
- Charles Newton
- Charles Parsons
- Charles Percy Snow
- Charles Rolls
- Charles Scott Sherrington
- Charles Sutherland Elton
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
- Charles Vernon Boys
- Charles West
- Charles Wheatstone
- Charles Wilson
- Charlotte Auerbach
- Charlotte Scott
- Christopher Cockerell
- Christopher Kelk Ingold
- Christopher Marshall
- Christopher Zeeman
- Cicely Saunders
- Clement Lindley Wragge
- Colin Chapman
- Colin Pillinger
- Collin Maclaurin
- Constance Naden
- Constance Tipper
- Cyril Clarke
- Daphne Jackson
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- David Arthur John Tyrrell
- David Axon
- David Bohm
- David Broomhead
- David Brunt
- David Cuthbertson
- David Hay
- David Hughes
- David Jack
- David Kelly
- David Lack
- David MacKay
- David Willis Wilson Henderson
- Deborah Doniach
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- Dennis Sciama
- Dietrich Küchemann
- Donald Bailey
- Donald Broadbent
- Donald Devereux Woods
- Donald Lynden‐Bell
- Donald Michie
- Donald Watts Davies
- Donald Winnicott
- Dorothea Bate
- Dorothée Pullinger
- Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan
- Dorothy Garrod
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Dorothy Needham
- Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison
- Douglas Scott Falconer
- Ed Whittaker
- Edgar Codd
- Edith Humphrey
- Edith Louisa Cavell
- Edmond Halley
- Edmund Davy
- Edmund Wingate
- Edward Adrian Wilson
- Edward Albert
- Edward Bullard
- Edward Frank Harrison
- Edward Frankland
- Edward George Bowen
- Edward Jenner
- Edward Newton
- Edward Penley Abraham
- Edward Routh
- Edward Stone
- Edward Victor Appleton
- Edward Walter Maunder
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- Edwin Chadwick
- Eleanor Glanville
- Elenor Ormerod
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- Elizabeth Carne
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- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Elizabeth Press
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- Emmeline Jean Hanson
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- Erasmus Darwin
- Eric Laithwaite
- Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick
- Ernest Hives
- Ernest Rutherford
- Ernest Starling
- Ernest Walton
- Ernst Chain
- Ethel Sargent
- Etheldred Benett
- Eva Crane
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- Geoffrey Keynes
- Geoffrey Sharman Dawes
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- George Armstrong
- George Biddell Airy
- George Boole
- George Caley
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- George Davis
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- George Gabriel Stokes
- George Garfield Hall
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- George Porter
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