Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) – whose research using x-ray crystallography delivered ground-breaking discoveries which shaped modern science and helped save lives.

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Andrew Bailey, the Bank’s governor, said: “I am very proud that the Bank is releasing the design of our new banknotes, which will carry a portrait of King Charles III. This is a significant moment, as the king is only the second monarch to feature on our banknotes. People will be able to use these new notes as they start to enter circulation in 2024.” JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Customers dealt a bad hand on credit card 'holds' on hire cars, hotels and petrol pumps On 10 November 2023 the Bank launched Round 1 of the scenario phase of the SWES. During the scenario phase, we are asking SWES participants to consider the impact of a hypothetical stress scenario, tell us how it would impact their business, and the actions they would take in response. We aim to use participants’ submissions to understand how their actions and behaviours during a stress could affect wider UK financial stability, particularly the resilience of the core UK SWES markets of focus. That provoked mortgage lenders to rush to hike the interest rate on home loans, while Bailey admitted it would take 'a lot longer than we expected' for headline inflation to fall from its current 7.8 per cent. Mary Anning (1799-1847) – a self-taught palaeontologist known around the world for the fossil discoveries she made in her hometown of Lyme Regis.

Currently the Bank intends to launch Round 2 of the scenario phase in 2024 Q2 and expects the SWES to conclude in 2024 Q4. Results and publications Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) and Charles Babbage (1791-1871) – visionaries who imagined the computer age. A table and mathematical formulae from Turing’s seminal 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. This paper is widely recognised as being foundational for computer science. It sought to establish whether there could be a definitive method by which any theorem could be assessed as provable or not using a universal machine. It introduced the concept of a Turing machine as a thought experiment of how computers could operate. However, stress tests earlier this year indicate that banks would withstand a “severe macroeconomic downturn”. Regulators around the world have been scrambling to develop new tools to monitor this burgeoning sector, which has grown dramatically since the financial crisis in 2008 and now makes up around half of global assets.

Sandra Horsfield, economist at investment bank Investec, said such a move would be 'aggressive' and there was 'little sign the medicine was taking effect' in taming the inflationary wage-price spiral. The launch of the note will stand as one of the most prominent changes for royal symbols since the death of the Queen in September; alongside new coins, stamps and the king’s CR monogram to be used on state documents and postboxes. Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) – who uncovered the properties of radiation, revealed the secrets of the atom and laid the foundations for nuclear physics. A photo of Turing taken in 1951 by Elliott & Fry which is part of the Photographs Collection at the National Portrait Gallery.The last time the Bank approved a half-percentage point rise was in February, but that failed to nip the cost-of-living crisis in the bud. You should not apply for an amount that you cannot comfortably afford to repay now and in the future to avoid the possibility of legal action.

Escape to the country... for less! House prices in these rural areas are cheaper than nearby cities and towns Technical drawings for the British Bombe, the machine specified by Turing and one of the primary tools used to break Enigma-enciphered messages during WWII. Alan Turing provided the theoretical underpinnings for the modern computer. While best known for his work devising code-breaking machines during WWII, Turing played a pivotal role in the development of early computers first at the National Physical Laboratory and later at the University of Manchester. He set the foundations for work on artificial intelligence by considering the question of whether machines could think. Turing was homosexual and was posthumously pardoned by the Queen having been convicted of gross indecency for his relationship with a man. His legacy continues to have an impact on both science and society today.Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) – who drove the discovery of DNA’s structure, a critical breakthrough in our understanding of the biology of life. AA warns drivers to avoid puddles in case they're perilous potholes after a record month of related breakdowns West End landlord Shaftesbury Capital defies the High Street gloom as it revels in Christmas sales lift Are you winter driving ready? Our 10 tips to prepare your car for freezing temperatures and icy roads