霍金可能會出現在新版50英鎊的紙幣上

Professor Stephen Hawking and Margaret Thatcher have been named on a shortlist of British figures who could feature on the new £50 note.

斯蒂芬霍金（Stephen Hawking）教授和瑪格麗特·撒切爾在被印在新版50英鎊候選人清單上面。

Bank of England governor Mark Carney announced earlier this year that the new polymer note would celebrate British achievement in science.

今年早些時候英國央行行長Mark Carney稱，新版紙幣上的人物必須是在科學方面爲英國有所建樹的人。

The Bank said only people making a contribution to scientific fields would be deemed eligible, but the former Conservative prime minister has been included on the latest list.

該央行表示，只有在科學方面做出貢獻的人才有資格，不過前保守黨首相卻在最新的名單上。

The rightwing blogging site Guido Fawkes launched an online petition for the former Conservative prime minister to become the new face of the £50 note in October.

主要是10月份的時候右翼Guido Fawkes在其博客發表了在線爲前保守黨首相申請印上50英鎊紙幣的請願書。

Although Baroness Thatcher – who got a degree in chemistry from Oxford and briefly worked as a research chemist for food company J Lyons – was first nominated before the science restriction was announced, she has been put forward for the final shortlist.

首相撒切爾，畢業於牛津大學的化學專業，在J Lyons公司作爲iyiming化學研究人員短暫的工作過一段時間，在科學貢獻作爲條件還沒有公佈出來，就已經獲得提名成爲最終候選人名單之一。

A spokesperson for the Bank said: “She had a degree in chemistry, [and] went on to work as a research chemist – famously working on the research team which helped invent soft scoop ice cream.”

銀行的一名發言人稱，“賽切爾畢業於化學專業，之後作爲一名化學研究人員，和團隊一起發明著名的軟勺冰淇淋。

While Baroness Thatcher did work on emulsifiers in ice cream, among other projects, the frozen dessert was actually invented in America, more than a decade before J Lyons and Co partnered with the US firm Mister Softee to introduce it to Britain.

確實賽切爾夫人對冰淇淋中乳化劑進行研究，不過冷凍甜食最早是在美國發明的，比J Lyons公司和美國公司Mister Softee合作引入英國之前還早10年。

The Bank said nearly 230,000 nominations were made in the six-week nomination process which ran until 14 December, with the list now whittled down to 992 eligible names.

到12月14日截止的6周時間一共收到有近23萬提名，現在這個名單縮減到了992人。

Other figures put forward include Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin, as well as Magnus Pyke and Marie Stopes.

同樣收到提名的人物還有（世界上第一位程序員、著名詩人拜倫的女兒）阿達·洛芙萊斯，（計算機科學與人工智能之父、數學家、邏輯學家、密碼分析學家和理論生物學家）阿蘭·圖靈，（英國物理化學家與晶體學家）羅莎琳德·富蘭克林，（英國第一位女性諾貝爾獎得主）多蘿西·霍奇金教授以及馬格納斯-派克和（880-1958 二十世紀最負盛名的計劃生育和女性權益倡導先驅,於1921年在倫敦開設了全球第一家避孕節育診）所瑪麗·斯托普斯。

The new £50 will replace the current paper note which features industrial revolution pioneers Matthew Boulton and James Watt.

新版紙幣會取代舊版印有工業革命先驅馬修·博爾頓和詹姆斯·瓦特版本。

（翻譯：林潯鷗）