• Question: Which scientist was the oldest?

    Asked by jade to Nikki, Jess, Harriet, Chris, Andy on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Nikki D'Arcy

      Nikki D'Arcy answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Hi jade. Thanks for the question.

      Do you mean the first scientist or the oldest in age?

      Nikki

    • Photo: Harriet Reid

      Harriet Reid answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Or if you mean who was the first scientist, it was probably the ancient Greeks who observed the world in a systematic way like scientists do now. Calling any scientific historians!

    • Photo: andy chapman

      andy chapman answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I would say that it was the first human beings. We are all scientists. We investigate things and use trail and error

    • Photo: Christopher Blanford

      Christopher Blanford answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Hi Jade
      I had to check this out. Wikipedia has a huge list. The oldest ones on it were 110.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_centenarians_%28scientists_and_mathematicians%29
      Chris

    • Photo: Jessica Groppi

      Jessica Groppi answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      Hi!

      In terms of age, the list Chris posted is really useful.

      If you want to know who was the first scientist, I agree with Andy: the first hominid who went “hey, what’s going on here? I need to look into this!”, was a scientist.

      Jess.

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