New £50 note: Bank of England asks public to nominate scientist

Scientist has to be British – and dead – with Ada Lovelace and Stephen Hawking early frontrunners to appear on plastic noteThe Bank of England is to ask the public to nominate a scientist as the face of the new plastic £50 note, with Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century mathematician known as the “grandmother of computing”, an early frontrunner alongside Stephen Hawking and Nobel prizewinner Dorothy Hodgkin. Related: Turing, Lovelace or Franklin? Your choices for the new &p