Joan Curran

Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.

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Judy Butland

Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.

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Hilda M Lyon

In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.

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Emily Dunn

Emily Dunn is one of two Yorkshirewomen running their own quarries in the first half of the 20th century, the other being Anne Greaves.

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