• Question: Which famous scientist from the past would you like to meet and why?

    Asked by gymgirl to Hephzi, Imogen, Jen, Jennifer, Tom on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Thomas Barrett answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      hmm good question. Rather than one person I’d like to go to one place. The 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference. At this conference 17 of the 29 attendees were Nobel Prize winners.
      People who went include:
      Marie Curie
      Albert Einstein
      Erwin Schrödinger
      Niels Bohr

      Lots of people who did such great things!

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      Hephzi Tagoe answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Off the top of my head, I’ll say Louise Pasteur. His discovery of vaccines still saves lives today and we have him to thank for pasteurisation and all the goodies that come along with it. I think it’ll be great to work in his lab to be pick his brain and I’ll be interesting to meet him for a chat to see the kind of person he is and how he feels about his achievements.

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      Imogen Napper answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I would love to meet Albert Einstein!

      He was amazingly clever, and produced perhaps one of the most famous equations ever: E = mc² (energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared).

      Plus he seems like he would be pretty cool. He said: “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music…. I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.” 😀

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      Jen Machin answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I’d like to meet Richard Feynman. He was a very clever physicist and was really good at giving interesting lectures and explaining complicated ideas to people. I wasn’t very good at physics at school, so maybe he could have helped me understand the subject better!

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      Jennifer Rudd answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      I’d like to meet the early alchemists (people who tried to turn base metals into gold) and some of the Greek philosophers.

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