"Most of the time, the things that win the Nobel Prize are esoteric, " said Marcelle Cedars at the University of California, San Francisco, who is incoming president of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

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Marion "Penny" Sage (16), Patricia Eastwood (12) and Jones's skating partner Marcelle Matthews (11) were the female trio who completed the pioneering quartet who placed Africa on the icy Games' map for the first time.

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Others include Gordon Roddick, the widower of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, from the Roddick Foundation, and Thomas Hughes-Hallett, of the Emily Hughes-Hallet Fund and also chief executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care charity, and Marcelle Speller of Localgiving.com.

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Marcelle Speller, founder and chief executive of localgiving.com, a website which links small charities and community projects with philanthropists, has said that although she is still very passionate about local giving, it is "galling" to think that the money she has given over the years is now being seen as a tax dodge.

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