Degree in Chemistry

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Britain's first woman prime minister and the first Briton in space have one thing in common – both studied chemistry at university, proving that it doesn't have to be all white coats and test tubes.

Oxford graduate Margaret Thatcher was a research chemist, helping devise the process that produces Mr Whippy ice cream. And Helen Sharman, who studied at Sheffield, worked, aptly enough, at Mars confectionary before becoming the UK cosmonaut on the 1991 Soviet space mission Project Juno.

For those with less lofty ambitions, it can open doors to a wide variety of careers inside or outside the lab..
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Angela Foster
Guardian
28th May 2011