Muriel Demarcus
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Muriel Demarcus
@MurielDemarcus
CEO. AI startup. Singapore. Worldwide








We’re excited to launch the Agnes-Claw model series! 🦞 🏆 Delivers top-10 level accuracy on the PinchBench leaderboard. ⚡️ Leveraging model quantization to deliver world-class AI at a lower cost. Get ready for a brand-new "Claw" experience for everyone! 🚀 #AgnesAI #AgnesClaw #ClawModel #OpenClaw

Britain called her a housewife. 📰 She’d mapped the molecule that saved the war. Dorothy Hodgkin’s hands were destroying themselves. Rheumatoid arthritis twisting every joint, locking every finger. The instruments she needed were the size of pins. She kept working. 🔬 1945. Soldiers dying of infected wounds. Penicillin could save them — but no one knew its molecular shape. Without that, you can’t mass-produce the drug. Hodgkin mapped it. Seventeen atoms. Four years. With hands that could barely hold the equipment. Penicillin went into mass production. Millions survived. 🌍 Then she went bigger. Vitamin B12. A hundred and eighty-one atoms. The most complex molecule ever mapped at the time. Eight years. They said it couldn’t be done. She did it anyway. 1964. Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 🏆 The only British woman ever to win a science Nobel. The Daily Mail headline? “Oxford housewife wins Nobel.” She’d solved the molecule that saved the war. Cracked the one they said was impossible. And they called her a housewife. But she wasn’t finished. Insulin. Seven hundred and eighty-eight atoms. She started in 1935. Finished in 1969. Thirty-four years. By the end, her hands were almost useless. ❤️ She taught at Oxford for half a century. One of her students was a young chemist named Margaret Roberts. Who became Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher hung Dorothy’s portrait in Downing Street. Every antibiotic you’ve ever taken. Every insulin injection. Every life saved by understanding the shape of a molecule. That traces back to a woman whose hands were failing her, and who never stopped. Stories like hers get buried. We put them in front of millions. Help us keep these stories alive → proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be proud of us. 🙏🇬🇧










