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Howorth founded several organizations including the Ladies Atomic Energy Club in 1948, where she presented scientific lectures about atomics with the hope that the attendees would instruct their friends. She also founded the Layman's
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peanuts she received to a group of her scientific friends. When her audience was unimpressed by the large peanuts
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before turning to work in the film industry. It was here that she invented an early picture and film recording device called a
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hoped to plant irradiated onion. She distributed irradiated tomato seeds from the United States in
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that included summaries of scientific papers on atomic news, book reviews, and biographies of scientists studying atomic science. In 1959 Howorth served irradiated
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Pioneer research on the atom; Rutherford and Soddy in a glorious chapter of science; the life story of
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