• Question: Who is your favourite scientist other than yourself???...;-]

    Asked by storyscribbler to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Alexander Flemming – he discovered penicillin, which is the antibiotic that helps us get better when we have infections. Penicillin is so widely used around the world, I couldn’t even begin to imagine what we’d do without it! There would be more sick people for sure!

    • Photo: Kerry O'Shea

      Kerry O'Shea answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I like Ada Lovelace, as she was the world’s first computer programmer!

    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Marie Curie, she was the first woman to get a Nobel prize and is still the only person to have got a Nobel prize in two fields. She sadly died due to the radiation she had come into contact with during her research.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Richard Feynman. He was a Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist with an absolutely brilliant mind, who revolutionised the way we do calculations and understand quantum physics. He also wrote very amusing books on his personal experiences, he always challenged authority and the accepted wisdom when he thought that they might be wrong. He discovered why the Challenger blew up (and he wasn’t and experimentalist). He was also an amazing teacher, some of his lectures were filmed live and are just fascinating to watch.
      For me he’s not not just my favourite scientist he’s a hero – I’ve always tried to emulate him in every way.

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