Nominated by: Mick Grierson

My nomination is (perhaps unsurprisingly) Daphne Oram.

She founded the BBC radiophonic workshop, invented the first British Electronic music device that featured a computational method for describing pitch (The Oramics Machine), and composed some of the most original and inventive music of the 1950s and 1960’s. She also may have been the first woman to develop her own computer program to make music.