• Question: If you could have 1 day with any scientist who would it be, and why?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Daren Fearon answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Good question. I’ll go for Dorothy Hodgkin as she did fantastic work that made protein crystallography – what I work on – what it is today. She solved the first structure of a steroid, solved the structure of penicillin and solved the structure of insulin which was amazing work considering the facilities and technology available at the time. She won the Nobel prize in 1964 for her work.

      Here is a little video about crystallography that mentions Dorothy Hodgkin: http://www.richannel.org/celebrating-crystallography

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      Lynne Thomas answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      I’d love to have met Rosalind Franklin. She was a very careful scientist and did some measurements on DNA which allowed us to work out the structure of the DNA double helix. Watson and Crick were shown her measurements without her knowing and they didn’t give her as much credit as she deserved. So I’d love to have met her and found out her side of the story!

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      Phillip Manning answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      It has to be Charles Darwin. His book, Origin of the Species, is possibly the most important book ever published.

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