Sarah Flannery

Won the Esat Young Scientist of the Year award at age 16 (in 1999) for a new cryptography algorithm which was faster than RSA (though used more memory). But in the end the algorithm turned out to have a hole.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0318/fea13.htm

http://www.science.ie/careers/main_sarah.html

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,17330,00.html

http://cryptome.org/flannery-cp.htm

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/experience/flannery.html

http://www.cayley-purser.ie/

<http://www.wellesley.edu/Womens Review/archive/2001/10/highlt.html>

Authored book In Code with her father, a math teacher.

She turned down a chance to be in a Pepsi ad

She was lauded by the SpiceGirls

And here's a nice group of people to be listed with: Biography Today: Profiles of people of interest to young readers: Scientists & Inventors Series by Laurie Lanzen Harris, ed. MI: Omnigraphics, 2001. Scientists in this volume are Steve Case, Douglas Engelbart, Shawn Fanning, Sarah Flannery, Bill Gates, Laura Groppe, Grace Murray Hopper, Steve Jobs, Rand Miller, Robyn Miller, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Steve Wozniak