Dorothy Stopford-Price
The series begins with a profile of Dorothy Stopford Price, the woman who pioneered the introduction of the BCG vaccine and spearheaded the country's fight against TB.
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Lilian Bland

Sun, Jul 13, 2014
Róisín Ní Thomáin continues to profile Irish women who helped to shape the world of science by focusing on the achievements of Lilian Bland - the early aviator who was the first woman in the world to design, build and fly her own plane.
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Kathleen Lonsdale
In episode three Róisín Ní Thomáin focuses on the achievements of Kathleen Lonsdale, whose pioneering work in the field of X-ray crystallography made her one of the most important chemists of the 20th century.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Róisín Ní Thomáin concludes the series by focusing on the achievements of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a world-renowned astrophysicist who made her name in the late 1960s with her discovery of pulsars, or pulsating stars.
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