On Tuesday 3rd February 2009, the Royal Society held an event to celebrate the work of the past winners of the Rosalind Franklin Award. This event also marked the launch of the latest project to be completed by Professor Ottoline Leyser, winner of the 2007 Rosalind Franklin Award. This was a book publishing the professional and personal time lines of 64 senior ranking female scientists working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The book is entitled Mothers in Science: 64 ways to have it all. Three of the featured individuals are Oxford Mathematicians Frances Kirwan (on page 30), Ulrike Tillmann (on page 45) and Alison Etheridge (on page 57).

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