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# Minerva Scientifica

Discover inspirational female UK scientists and composers past and present

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- [Home](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/) - Minerva Scientifica a music-theatre project reflecting the lives and work of British Women Scientists told through the music of British Women Composers
- [Isobel Dunlop](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/isobel-dunlop/) - Composer and Violinist; Born in Edinburgh; also known as Violet Skelton; studied with Donald Tovey and Hans Gal; wrote Four Settings of William Soutar
- [Keith Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/keith-primary-school/) - P4 perform their wonderful MEGASONG for Electric Voice Theatre and 'Isabella's Footsteps' - you'll never see lobsters in quite the same way again!
- [Map](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/map/)
- [Newmill Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/newmill-primary-school/) - Thrilled to be able to post our first school project for Isabella's Footsteps - you'll find a brilliant Crustacean Megasong from these gifted children
- [Isabella Gordon](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/isabella-gordon/) - Carcinologist - Curator of Crustacea at Natural History Museum, Hon. member of Carcinological Soc. of Japan where she discussed crustacea with Emperor Hirohito
- [Handcross Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/handcross-primary-school/) - Year 5 Badgers, Handcross Primary, worked with Electric Voice Theatre and the Serpell Lab creating music around the science of folding/misfolding proteins.
- [Elizabeth Gray](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-gray/) - Accomplished fossil collector who specialised in fossils of the Girvan region in Ayrshire, Scotland; Recipient of the Murchison fund in 1903;
- [Sarah Clay](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/sarah-clay/) - Simulation Science; ESA; BAE Systems; Simbiant; Space agency; Defence; Mathematical model
- [Eliza Flower](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/eliza-flower/) - Eliza Flower and her sister Sarah Flower Adams influenced the sociopolitical life at South Place Unitarian Chapel. The archive at Conway Hall contains much of interest about them and W. J. Fox
- [Louise Serpell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/louise-serpell/) - #post_contentAlzheimer’s disease; Amyloid-beta; Tau; Neurofibrillary tangles; Amyloid
- [Karen Marshall](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/karen-marshall/) - Protein misfolding, amyloid, Alzheimer’s disease, protein self-assembly
- [Mary Anning](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mary-anning/) - Mary Anning, fossil collector and palaeontologist from Lyme Regis, discovered pterodactyl and plesiosaur skeletons that revolutionised Victorian geology.
- [Elizabeth Turner](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-turner/) - Composer Elizabeth Turner lived and died in London, her compositions appeared regularly in publications alongside those of Handel & Thomas Arne and was the favourite singer of William Boyce.
- [Sparkwell All Saints Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/sparkwell-all-saints-primary-school/) - Robins Class, Sparkwell Primary School, Devon, created a fantastic MEGASONG animated video about Mary Anning, palaeontology and a pterosaur Dimorphodon.....
- [Chaddlewood Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/chaddlewood-primary-school/) - Chaddlewood Primary School, Devon, created 2 fantastic MEGASONG animated videos about Mary Anning, palaeontology an ichthyosaur and a plesiosaur
- [Aberdour Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/aberdour-primary-school/) - Aberdour Primary School, Fife, created a fantastic MEGASONG about a famous local astronomer and mathematician Mary Somerville .....
- [Newton Poppleford Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/newton-poppleford-primary-school/) - Newton Poppleford Primary School in Sidmouth, Devon was part of Minerva Scientifica's Voices For The Future: Mary Anning outreach workshop series in 2022
- [Awliscombe Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/awliscombe-primary-school/) - Newton Poppleford Primary School in Honiton, Devon was part of Minerva Scientifica's Voices For The Future: Mary Anning outreach workshop series in 2022
- [Payhembury Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/payhembury-primary-school/) - Payhembury Primary School in Honiton, Devon was part of Minerva Scientifica's Voices For The Future: Mary Anning outreach workshop series in 2022
- [Sidmouth Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/sidmouth-primary-school/) - Sidmouth Primary School in Sidmouth, Devon was part of Minerva Scientifica's Voices For The Future: Mary Anning outreach workshop series in 2022
- [Schools](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/schools/)
- [Thomas Hickman School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/thomas-hickman-school/) - Thomas Hickman Primary School in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire was part of Minerva Scientifica's Voices For The Future: Miriam Rothschild outreach workshop series in 2022
- [Florence Nightingale](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/florence-nightingale/) - Florence Nightingale, ‘Lady of the Lamp’, nurse who saved lives in Crimea, London and India by introducing hygiene, medical training and visual statistics.
- [Ali Fisher](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/ali-fisher/) - Warrant Officer Ali Fisher is an engineer with the RAF who has worked with Harrier, Tornado, Puma, Sentry E3D and Lightning F35B aircraft.
- [Mary Somerville](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mary-somerville/) - Mathematician, Astronomer and Physicist with a talent for scientific writing; translated Mécanique céleste; wrote instructive texts on the physical sciences
- [Beatrix Potter](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/beatrix-potter/) - Beatrix Potter lived in London & the Lake District, an author, fossil collector & mycologist, studied fungi with Charles McIntosh (Dunkeld). Linnean Society gave her late recognition!
- [Bertha Park High School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/bertha-park-high-school/) - Participated in Echoes from Perthshire, September-November 2019
- [Thalia Monro-Somerville](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/thalia-monro-somerville/) - Thalia Monro-Somerville is a critical care doctor and anaesthetist with experience working in a variety of UK hospitials including in Cornwall, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh
- [Agnes Arber](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/agnes-arber/)
- [Charlotte Auerbach](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/charlotte-auerbach/) - Born in Krefeld, Germany, 1899; studied genetic mutations in the 1940s; Lecturer at Edinburgh University; First woman awarded the Darwin Medal 1976
- [Janette Dunlop](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/janette-dunlop/) - Physicist who worked with C. G. Barkla on the scattering of X-rays by different substances; Teacher of Mathematics and Science; Born and worked in Edinburgh
- [Lady Dufferin](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/lady-dufferin/) - Lady Dufferin (Helen Blackwood), 19th-century English composer and poet, wrote popular songs and duets and encountered Astronomer and Mathematician Mary Somerville in Rome
- [Lilian Bader](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/lilian-bader/) - Aircraft Instrument Engineer during WW2, leading aircraftwoman in the WAAF and one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces
- [Maryam Imani](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/maryam-imani/) - Civil Engineer; Water systems engineer; Anglia Ruskin University; School of Engineering and the Built Environment; University of Exeter; Water Systems; Water Infrastructure; Resilience; Institution of Civil Engineers; STEM; Women in Engineering
- [Victoria Drummond](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/victoria-drummond/) - First female marine engineer in Britain; worked on several important ships during WW2; MBE and Lloyd's Medal for Bravery at Sea
- [Agnes Metcalfe](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/agnes-metcalfe/) - Born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire; Former Headmistress of Stroud Green School; Wrote the book 'Women's Effort'; Campaigned for Women's Suffrage
- [Elaine Bullard](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elaine-bullard/) - Studied and catalogued the plant life of the Orkney Islands; Specialist on the Scottish Primrose; MBE and honorary doctorate from Heriott-Watt
- [Debbie Samwell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/debbie-samwell/) - Conservationist and Performing Arts Specialist; particular interest in lighting design and operation; works at Brixworth Country Park and Brampton Valley Way
- [Amy Johnson](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/amy-johnson/) - Amy Johnson CBE was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (1930). Famous campaigner for female engineers, she broke many aviation records.
- [Agnes Borthwick](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/agnes-borthwick/) - Munitions Works Manager at Georgetown Shell Filing Factory in Paisley during WW1; Engineer and Trainer; Most senior female with this post in UK
- [Elizabeth Blackwell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-blackwell/) - Born in Aberdeen; celebrated botanical artist; author of 'A Curious Herbal'; produced one of the earliest botanical works by a woman
- [Nora Miller](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/nora-miller/) - Taught at Glasgow University and Paisley College; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1954; Researched the evolution of Lungfish
- [Marion Ross](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/marion-ross/) - Scottish Physicist famous for her work on the beta-alumina crystal under Sir W. Lawrence Bragg; x-ray and nuclear physics and fluid dynamics.
- [Elizabeth Fulhame](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-fulhame/) - Elizabeth Fulhame, 18th century chemist from Scotland conducted experiments on metal salts, some describing catalysis and techniques later used in photography
- [Elizabeth Masden](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-masden/) - Works at Environmental Research Institute in Thurso; PhD, University of Glasgow; studies the ecology of black guillemots and the impact of wind farms on birds
- [Doris Mackinnon](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/doris-mackinnon/) - Doris Mackinnon, zoologist from Aberdeen, first female Professor King’s College, specialised in Protozoa, contributed to D’Arcy Thompson’s On growth and form
- [Lynne Plowman](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/lynne-plowman/)
- [Madeleine Dring](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/madeleine-dring/) - Accomplished Composer Pianist and Singer; Actor on ITV; Wrote The Fair Queen of Wu; Studied with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music
- [Marie Dare](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/marie-dare/) - Composer and Cellist, 1902-1976, Born in Fife, Guildhall School of Music graduate, employed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music
- [Cheryl Frances-Hoad](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/cheryl-frances-hoad/)
- [Helen Hopekirk](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/helen-hopekirk/)
- [Amanda Ira Aldridge](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/amanda-ira-aldridge/) - Singer, Accompanist. Composer and Singing Teacher active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; inspired students and supported black writers and performers of her time
- [Eliza Westbury](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/eliza-westbury/) - Composer, Hymnodist and Lacemaker based in Hackleton, Northamptonshire; Wrote 150 hymns from 1826-1828
- [Shirley J Thompson](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/shirley-j-thompson/) - Professor Dr Shirley J. Thompson OBE; Composer, Artistic & Music Director, Writer; University of Westminster; Stories of Women in Leadership; BBC
- [Avril Coleridge-Taylor](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/avril-coleridge-taylor/) - Avril Coleridge-Taylor made her conducting debut at the Royal Albert Hall. Her father was composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Her pseudonym was Peter Riley.
- [Erika De Castro](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/erika-de-castro/) - Erika De Castro, Postdoctoral Researcher at Cambridge University, contributed to Minerva Scientifica's Voices for the Future: Miriam Rothschild Project in 2022
- [Mary Maxwell Campbell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mary-maxwell-campbell/)
- [Miriam Rothschild](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/miriam-rothschild/)
- [Sarah Mirkin](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/sarah-mirkin/) - Sarah Mirkin, age 8, won electric voice theatre’s Beatrix Potter Fungi Song Competition, congratulated by Judith Weir and Lynne Boddy, and celebrates her Krio heritage.
- [Chemistry](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/chemistry/)
- [Biology](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/biology/)
- [Anne-Marie Weijmans](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/anne-marie-weijmans/) - Researcher in Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, worked at Leiden University and Toronto University, structure and evolution of Galaxies
- [Hawkshead Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/hawkshead-primary-school/) - Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School in Ambleside, Lake District was part of Minerva Scientifica's Voices For The Future: Beatrix Potter Outreach Workshop in 2021
- [Lynne Boddy](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/lynne-boddy/) - #post_contentProfessor of Fungal Ecology at Cardiff University, Expert in Basidiomycete fungal communities, wood decay fungi, fungi and trees, fungal biology, mycelia
- [Kira Ramchaitar-Husbands](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/kira-ramchaitar-husbands/) - #post_contentproducer sound art technology digital london 3D generative electronic glitch female beats music audiovisual
- [Barbara Clayton](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/barbara-clayton/) - Barbara Clayton progressed from being Head Girl at Bromley County School for Girls, through undergraduate medical training at the University of Edinburgh
- [Carolina Nairne](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/carolina-nairne/) - Composer, Poet, Musician and Baroness born in Gask, Perthshire, Scotland. Wrote many of her own tunes and collected folksong. Contemporary of Sir Robert Burns.
- [Mathematics](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mathematics/)
- [Medicine](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/medicine/)
- [Rosalind Franklin](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/rosalind-franklin/) - Rosalind Franklin, famous X-ray crystallographer, studied viruses and DNA. Her photograph 51 was crucial for deciphering the double helix molecular structure.
- [Earth Sciences](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/earth-science/)
- [Emily Mitchell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/emily-mitchell/)
- [Maria Ogilvie Gordon](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/maria-ogilvie-gordon/) - 1864-1939; Expert in the geology of the Dolomites particularly the South Tyrol and fossil corals; Justice of the Peace; DBE; Champion for Women's Rights
- [Evelyn Baxter](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/evelyn-baxter/) - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1951, MBE, Honorary Degree Glasgow University, Published Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution and Migration
- [Isabella Leitch](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/isabella-leitch/) - Isabella Leitch, nutritional physiologist from Peterhead, believer in social equality, at Rowett Institute, studied links between child malnutrition and disease
- [Leonora Rintoul](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/leonora-rintoul/) - Born in Largo; Wrote 1953 book Birds of Scotland with Evelyn Baxter; studied birdlife on the Isle of May; Founded Scottish Ornithologists Club
- [Caroline Herschel](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/caroline-herschel/) - Discovered 8 comets and 14 nebulae, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1828, Named Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society
- [Alison Dunne](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/alison-dunne/) - Chemistry, engineering, teaching, CERN, James Watt, Semiconductors
- [All Saints Primary School, Greenock](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/all-saints-primary-greenock/) - Participated in Echoes from Inverclyde, Jan-March 2019
- [Physics](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/physics/)
- [Engineering](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/engineering/)
- [Laura Florence](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/laura-florence/) - Entomologist born in Aberdeen, studied at Stanford and worked at Cornell, published research on the Food of Birds and infections in farm animals
- [Gulielma Lister](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/gulielma-lister/) - Botanist and mycologist Gulielma Lister (1860-1949), world-famous for studying slime moulds in Epping Forest and Lyme Regis, belonged to the Linnean Society and the British Museum.
- [Elspeth Manders](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elspeth-manders/) - Chelmsford cathedral, BBC Singers, Robert Saxton, Deborah Pritchard, Frances Lynch, Simone Ibbett Brown, David Sheppard, Julian Stocker, Somerset House, Arts Council England, University of Oxford, Worcester College
- [Imogen Holst](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/imogen-holst/) - Imogen Holst; Composer and Conductor; English Folk Dance and Song Society; Purcell Singers; Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts
- [Ellen Willmott](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/ellen-willmott/) - Ellen Willmott, horticulturalist, botanist and rose expert, created the gardens of Warley Place Nature Reserve and financed Ernest Wilson’s China expeditions.
- [Doris Grant](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/doris-grant/) - Doris Grant, nutritionist from Banffshire was an author and healthy food campaigner who devised the Grant Loaf, and was a fierce opponent of water fluoridation.
- [Frances M Lynch](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/frances-m-lynch/) - Composer and Singer; Artistic Director of Minerva Scientifica and Electric Voice Theatre; Specialist in Contemporary Music
- [Beryl Platt](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/beryl-platt/) - Beryl Platt (Baroness Writtle), eminent engineer, worked on fighter aeroplanes during WW2. Founder of WISE, she campaigned for female education and equality.
- [Ingrida Juraite](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/ingrida-juraite/) - BAE Systems; engineering; mathematics; TTCP; space; communications; special projects; simulation; modelling; signal processing
- [Delia Derbyshire](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/delia-derbyshire/) - Pioneering composer of early electronic music active in the mid to late 20th century; worked for a long period at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; born in Coventry
- [Margaret Cavendish](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/margaret-cavendish/) - 17th-century Natural Philosopher; wrote privately on scientific topics; a radical thinker of her time who rejected male supremacy
- [Caroline Rixon](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/caroline-rixon/) - Mathematics teacher and communications engineer from Barking, Essex; worked at Marconi and SPT communications in Chelmsford; Plymouth University; Bletchley Park; PGCE
- [Amy Petts](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/amy-petts/) - Chemistry, Environmental Science, Environmental Fate, Battelle, Analytical
- [Karen Diele](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/karen-diele/) - Marine Ecologist working at Edinburgh Napier University and St Abbs Marine Station; Expert in marine invertebrates, particularly the Mangrove Crab
- [Gothamie Weerakoon](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/gothamie-weerakoon/) - Gothamie Weerakoon, Senior Curator of Lichens & Slime Moulds, Natural History Museum London. Taxonomy, ecology, bio-indication, conservation, fungi, endangered habitats.
- [Florence Attridge](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/florence-attridge/) - Florence Attridge, electronic technician at Marconi in Chelmsford, Essex during WW2, was awarded a BEM for her SOE work on spy sets and secret radio transmission
- [Elizabeth Tollet](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-tollet/) - Elizabeth Tollet, 18th-century scientific poet who lived in the Tower of London, knew Isaac Newton and wrote about Hypatia, Anne Boleyn and female education.
- [Maria Barthélemon](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/maria-barthelemon/) - Composer Maria Barthélemon (born Covent Garden) married François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, was the niece of Thomas Arne and friend of Haydn. She debuted as a singer in the Beggar’s Opera.
- [Shena Fraser](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/shena-fraser/) - Shena Fraser a composer from Stirling (pseudonym Sebastian Scott) studied at Royal College of Music and is connected in fascinating ways to Shepherd Neame brewery, Hubert Parry and the WI!
- [Ada Lovelace](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/ada-lovelace/) - Mathematician and computer pioneer said to have written the first computer program; provided important insights into Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
- [Helen Jacobs](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/helen-jacobs/) - Women in science; Ecology; Essex & Suffolk Water; Conservation; Forestry; CIEEM; Inspiring women; STEM
- [Kristín Björg Arnardóttir](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/kristin-bjorg-arnardottir/) - PhD NTU Singapore; Worked in Stockholm, Reykjavik and at University of St Andrews; studies polaritons and organic molecules
- [Computing](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/computing-science/)
- [Astronomy](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/astronomy/)
- [Maureen Young](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/maureen-young/) - Conservation Scientist at Historic Environment Scotland; Phd from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen on colonisation of building stone
- [Ceylan Hay](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/ceylan-hay/) - Experimental vocalist / multi-instrumentalist composer from Edinburgh; highly experienced in community music-making; passionate about people and nature
- [Marion Gray](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/marion-gray/) - Born in Ayr; PhD from Bryn Mawr College; Researcher at Bell Labs; Discovered the Gray Graph; Specialised in mathematics and electromagnetic theory
- [Elizabeth Kuipers](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/elizabeth-kuipers/) - Accomplished clinical psychologist based at KCL; Has worked on developing individual cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis
- [Claire Sharpe](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/claire-sharpe/) - Kidney Doctor, Research Scientist, Educationalist; Kings College London; Ras Protein; Renal Cells; Athena SWAN; Rosalind Franklin
- [Jean Valentine](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/jean-valentine/) - Jean Valentine from Perth served in the WRNS in WW2 at Bletchley and Adstock operating the bombe deciphering German codes, later decoding Japanese weather data
- [Mischa Cross](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mischa-cross/) - Ecologist and Reserve Officer based at Pitsford Water Nature Reserve; Specialist in wildlife conservation, particularly moth surveying
- [Dorothy Spicer](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/dorothy-spicer/) - Dorothy Spicer, highly qualified aircraft engineer and metallurgy researcher, broke world aviation records and performed at Sywell Women’s Flying Event in 1931. 160
- [Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mary-russell-duchess-of-bedford/) - Mary, Duchess of Bedford, wealthy adventurer and philanthropist, was an ornithologist, rare cat breeder, radiographer and record-breaking aircraft pilot.
- [Williamina Fleming](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/williamina-fleming/) - Williamina Fleming was born in Dundee and emigrated to the USA where she worked as a maid and became a world famous Astronomer at Harvard College Observatory!
- [Adeline H Campbell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/adeline-h-campbell/) - Adeline Campbell from Kirkcaldy was a Doctor in WW1 with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Serbia and the QMAAC in Le Havre, then worked in Edinburgh hospitals
- [Composers](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/composers/)
- [Wick High School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/wick-high-school/) - School in Wick, Caithness, Scotland; Participated in Echoes from Lyth Arts Centre; Composed 'Seoras' for electronically manipulated voice samples
- [Viewforth High School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/viewforth-high-school/) - School in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland; Participated in Minerva Scientifica Project “Echoes fae Fife” Nov 2018 – Feb 2019
- [Stroud Green Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/stroud-green-primary-school/) - Composers and Singers, Participated in Echoes from London June 2019, Sang about Hertha Ayrton and learnt about crustacea with Miranda Lowe
- [Stirling High School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/stirling-high-school/)
- [Riverside Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/riverside-primary-school/)
- [Raploch Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/raploch-primary-school/)
- [Letham Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/letham-primary-school/) - Participated in Echoes from Perthshire, September – November 2019
- [Killin Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/killin-primary-school/) - Primary School in Killin, Stirlingshire, Scotland; Composers and Singers; Participated in Echoes from Ben Lawers Autumn 2018
- [Kenmore Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/kenmore-primary-school/) - Primary School in Aberfeldy, Scotland; Composers and Singers; Participated in Echoes from Ben Lawers Autumn 2018
- [Eyemouth Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/eyemouth-primary-school/)
- [Eyemouth High School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/eyemouth-high-school/)
- [Errol Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/errol-primary-school/) - Participated in Echoes from Perthshire, October-November 2019
- [Clovenstone Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/clovenstone-primary-school/)
- [Canal View Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/canal-view-primary-school/)
- [Arinagour Primary School](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/arinagour-primary-school/) - Primary School on Isle of Coll, Scotland; Composers and Singers; Participated in Echoes bhon Cridhe, September 2018
- [Timeline](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/timeline-minerva/)
- [Karen Wimhurst](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/karen-wimhurst/) - Composer and Clarinettist; Educator and Environmentalist; Was Composer in Residence at Plymouth University; Wrote pieces about Miriam Rothschild and Eva Crane;
- [Anne Hunter](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/anne-hunter/)
- [Marjory Kennedy Fraser](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/marjory-kennedy-fraser/)
- [Isabella Scott Gibson](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/isabella-scott-gibson/)
- [Stephanie Matern](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/stephanie-matern-2/)
- [Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/lethy-krishnan-jagadamma/) - Experimental Physicist; Research Assistant at the University of Strathclyde; Works with solar cells; PhD from Strathclyde with BFWG award; Born in Kerala, India
- [Mari Cole](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mari-cole/) - PhD researcher in Condensed Matter Physics at CM-CDT, University of St Andrews; working on measuring the electrical and heat properties of unusual materials
- [Hertha Ayrton](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/hertha-ayrton/) - Physicist specialising in electricity; wrote the electric arc (1902); first woman to read her own paper to The Royal Society; Hughes Medal
- [Andrea Nolan](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/andrea-nolan/) - Research leader in the field of animal pain, its recognition and management; Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology; first female head of a veterinary school
- [Louise Larkin](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/louise-larkin/) - Engineer at Ferguson Marine; Encouraging women to pursue engineering careers; Born in Greenock
- [Aurélie Turmel](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/aurelie-turmel/) -  Université de Reims; Historic Environment Scotland; Master en Archéologie appliquée a la géologie; Doctorat en Science de la Terre
- [Marjory Roy](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/marjory-roy/) - Born in Edinburgh; worked at Met Office; researched agricultural meteorology, orographic rainfall in Scotland and mountain weather data on Ben Nevis
- [Charlotte Murchison](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/charlotte-murchison/) - Fossil Collector, Botanical enthusiast, Scientific Traveller and Artist; Hunted for ammonites with her husband Robert;
- [Sarah Hamilton](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/sarah-hamilton/) - Works at Historic Environment Scotland in Stirling; MSc in Architectural conversation; researches built heritage and the use of stone as a building material
- [Mary Lyell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/mary-lyell/) - Accomplished linguist and translator; Conchologist specialising in fossil shells; Assistant to her husband Sir Charles Lyell, author of Principles of Geology
- [Emma Hart](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/emma-hart/) - Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University; Pioneer of Artificial Immune Systems; Editor of Journal of Evolutionary Computation
- [Sarah Watts](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/sarah-watts/) - Works at Ben Lawers National Trust for Scotland; Researches upland ecology, monitoring rare upland habitats and species; PhD University of Edinburgh
- [Muriel Robertson](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/muriel-robertson/) - Protozoologist and Bacteriologist, specialising in study of single-cell organisms; known for work on Trypanosoma Gambiense; born in Glasgow
- [Audrey Litterick](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/audrey-litterick/) - Crop and Soil Scientist, works at Audrey Litterick Consulting Ltd. and Earthcare Technical Ltd., expert on soil health in agriculture and field horticulture
- [Meng Yang](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/meng-yang/) - Astronomy PhD at the University of St Andrews, graduate of Tsinghua University, Beijing, studying dark matter distribution of galaxies
- [Aurélie Turmel (in English)](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/aurelie-turmel-in-english/) - Born in Reims, France; Geologist and Archaeologist; works at Historic Environment Scotland; researches the conversation of materials and monuments
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- [Karen Marshall](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/timeline/karen-marshall/)
- [Emily Mitchell](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/timeline/emily-mitchell/)
- [Alison Dunne](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/timeline/alison-dunne/)
- [Isabella Leitch](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/timeline/isabella-leitch/)
- [Ali Fisher](https://minervascientifica.co.uk/timeline/ali-fisher/)
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