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Bannerman lived much of her life in India, where her husband William Bannerman was an officer in the Indian Medical Service, including 32 years in Madras.
She was the grandmother of the physicist Tom Kibble, who discovered the Higgs–Kibble mechanism and the Higgs boson.
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