LSE Library: On Women In Science Day, check out the suffrage banners honouring women scientists and medics designed by Mary Lowndes — founder of the Artists’ Suffrage League (1907) 🧵 1. Caroline Herschel was an astronomer who discovered five new comets.

On Women In Science Day, check out the suffrage banners honouring women scientists and medics designed by Mary Lowndes — founder of the Artists’ Suffrage League (1907) 🧵 1. Caroline Herschel was an astronomer who discovered five new comets.

2. Mary Somerville was a scientist and mathematician. She had signed the 1866 women’s suffrage petition.

3. Mary Kingsley was a traveler and explorer. Interestingly, in a speech she made on women's suffrage in 1897 she argued against women being given the vote in parliamentary elections.

4. Marie Curie discovered radium in 1898. She usually withheld her name from petitions, but she did sign a petition against suffragette imprisonment.

5. Elizabeth Blackwell M.D. was a British and American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

6. Edith Pechey Phipson M.D. was one of the first women medical doctors in the United Kingdom and a campaigner for women's rights.

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