Platten's candor and hard work won her fans among even the most fanatical anti-touch-screen activists.
Levi's work won her the European film award for best composer in December 2014, and a Bafta nomination a month later.
Transposons were first discovered in corn (maize) during the 1940s and '50s by American scientist Barbara McClintock, whose work won her the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.
Her independent spirit and unyielding determination to make representative democracy work won her a permanent place in the pantheon of great Americans.
Creasy's campaigning and energetic constituency work won her admiration across the political spectrum – both LabourList and ConservativeHome declared themselves fans – but also brought electoral success.
The following year she was elected to Birmingham city council, for the war-damaged area around the Saltley gas works, where her assiduous housing work won her a big local reputation, and became a JP.
Her work won her accolades at the Scottish Politician of the Year Awards, for Political Impact of the Year in 2012 and Debater of the Year in 2013.
However, Ms. Tawney's works have won her little acclaim, apart from a small, ardent following.
In recent years, a series of popular TV and radio adaptations of her works have won her legions of new fans.
In the mid-1980's a German scientist, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, was mutating fruit fly genes to study the effect on embryo development, work that won her a Nobel Prize in 1995.
