Suffrage_Science_awards

Suffrage Science award

Suffrage Science award

Prize for women in science, engineering and computing

The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS).[2][3][4] There are three categories of award:

  1. life sciences
  2. engineering and physical sciences
  3. mathematics and computing.
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The life sciences award was founded in 2011.[5] Every year there are 10 laureates from research backgrounds and one laureate for communication. The engineering and physical sciences award was founded in 2013.[6] Every year there are 12 laureates from areas spanning physics, chemistry and more. The math and computing award was launched on Ada Lovelace Day, 2016.[7] Every year there are five laureates from mathematics, five laureates from computing and one laureate for science communication and the public awareness of science.

Laureates

Laureates have included:

2021

Engineering and Physical Sciences winners are:[8]

Hayaatun Sillem won the award in 2021
  • Gaitee Hussain [Wikidata], European Space Agency, The Netherlands
  • Syma Khalid, University of Southampton, UK
  • Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Ina van Berckelaer-Onnes [Wikidata], Leiden University, The Netherlands
  • Hayaatun Sillem, CBE, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
  • Ruth Cameron, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Elin Röös [Wikidata], Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Maria Dolores Martín Bermudo [Wikidata], Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Spain
  • Samaya Nissanke, University of Amsterdam and Nikhef, The Netherlands
  • Gerjo van Osch, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
  • Valérie Orsat, McGill University, Canada
  • Mary Anti Chama, University of Ghana, Ghana

2020

Samantha Joye won the award in 2020

Life Sciences award[9][10] winners are:

Wendy Mackay won the award in 2020.

Maths and Computing award winners are:

2019

Karen Holford won the award in 2019.

Engineering and Physical Sciences[19]

2018

Nina Snaith won the award in 2018.

Life sciences:

Maths and Computing[27]

2017

Sheila Rowan won the award in 2017.

Engineering

2016

Lori Passmore won the award in 2016.

Life sciences:

Maths and computing:

Christl Donnelly won the award in 2016.

2015

Polly Arnold won the award in 2015.

2014

Anne Ferguson-Smith won the award in 2014.

2013

Kathy Sykes won the award in 2013.

2012

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi won the award in 2012.

2011

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore won the award in 2011.

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