Great women scientists

Ian Goodall SpeakerNet Sponsor


Region:
South East
Notice Period:
Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
Type:
Rotary/charity/Probus/WI/u3a
Fee:
Free
Category:
Science
Updated:
30th July 2024

This highly illustrated talk gives short biographies of Marie Curie, Dorothy Hodgkin, Rosalind Franklin, Rachel Carson and Lyn Margulis. As well has highlighting their discoveries, I explain how they had to work extra hard to gain recognition, because they were women. Franklin was denied credit, even though she took the crucial photograph which enabled Watson and Crick to work out the structure of DNA. Lyn Margulis struggled for over a decade to get her ideas taken seriously; now her theory of endosymbiosis is accepted as fact. Marie Curie is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences and ended up dying from the radiation she had been exposed to in her work.

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About Ian Goodall

Ian’s talks have been described as ‘highly engaging and informative’ ‘One of the best speakers we’ve ever had’. Ian is the retired Headmaster of a large comprehensive school and now gives highly illustrated talks which have been extremely well received . He has degrees from several universities. He has developed a number of highly illustrated talks with a biological/medical theme. Talks include The man who caught a million criminals - Alec Jefferys and the invention of DNA fingerprinting.

The history of vaccines - Edward Jenner to the Covid mRNA vaccines.

The rise of the superbugs- antibiotic resistance. The history of genetics - the race to the double helix’. I have given 50 of these talks to Rotary Clubs, Probus Clubs, U3A groups and other societies - with uniformly excellent feedback. Talks can be anything between 30 and 60 minutes, according to your preference.


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