Search is on: for the face on Banknote
Edinburgh (UK):
A hunt was launched yesterday for a mystery scientist featured on a Scottish banknote.
The woman, believed to be a chemical scientist, posed for the picture more than ten years ago. She features on the back of Bank of Scotland £20 notes with the caption "education and research".
But she has always remained anonymous and now the Royal Society of Chemistry hopes to find her in time for the annual Science and the Parliament event in Edinburgh next month. Spokesman Brian Emsley said: "We became interested in the identity of the lady when a visitor to our stand at the American Chemical Society annual convention in Washington last month approached us with the note.
"She asked us what the woman was doing in the image and if she was indeed a chemist. We would like to find out what she was performing in the image on the note, where she was and what she has been doing since." The Bank of Scotland said it was unable to reveal the woman's identity.
The current issue of Bank of Scotland notes were launched in 1995 to commemorate its 300th anniversary. The reverse of each note depicts the bank's involvement in the community through five themes, from oil and energy on the back of its £5 note to an image of leisure and tourism on the £100 note.
A bank spokeswoman said: "The image on the reverse of the £20 note, illustrating education and research, shows an individual using a high pressure liquid chronometer.
Oct 08, 2005
Russel Fallis, Scotsman
Edinburgh (UK):A hunt was launched yesterday for a mystery scientist featured on a Scottish banknote.
The woman, believed to be a chemical scientist, posed for the picture more than ten years ago. She features on the back of Bank of Scotland £20 notes with the caption "education and research".
But she has always remained anonymous and now the Royal Society of Chemistry hopes to find her in time for the annual Science and the Parliament event in Edinburgh next month. Spokesman Brian Emsley said: "We became interested in the identity of the lady when a visitor to our stand at the American Chemical Society annual convention in Washington last month approached us with the note.
"She asked us what the woman was doing in the image and if she was indeed a chemist. We would like to find out what she was performing in the image on the note, where she was and what she has been doing since." The Bank of Scotland said it was unable to reveal the woman's identity.
The current issue of Bank of Scotland notes were launched in 1995 to commemorate its 300th anniversary. The reverse of each note depicts the bank's involvement in the community through five themes, from oil and energy on the back of its £5 note to an image of leisure and tourism on the £100 note.
A bank spokeswoman said: "The image on the reverse of the £20 note, illustrating education and research, shows an individual using a high pressure liquid chronometer.
Oct 08, 2005
Russel Fallis, Scotsman
