in february 2016 she was shortlisted, along with scottish physicist james clerk maxwell and civil engineer thomas telford, in a public competition run by royal bank of scotland to decide whose face should appear on the bank's new £10 notes, to be issued in 2017. later that month rbs announced that she had won the public vote, held on facebook. the banknotes, bearing her image, were issued in the second half of 2017.