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Asked by ibot to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 20 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by mahad369.
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Steven Daly answered on 17 Jun 2011:
The person who most inspired me to do physics at university was my college Physics teacher called Mr Baker. You could tell from the way he explained things that he found everything fascinating, and the energy he put into explaining things and demonstrating with practicals just made me love science.
Famous people, it would have to be a physicist called Richard Feynman, who wrote a wonderful series of books explaining physics.
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Vera Weisbecker answered on 17 Jun 2011:
At the moment, Thomas Huxley. He just rocks like no other scientist. Huxley isn’t as famous as Charles Darwin but he had it much harder in many ways. Unlike Darwin, he wasn’t rich and in those days that meant that you could not do science. By sheer force of will and brilliant work, he managed to be the first scientist who actually got paid for his work. He was the person who defended Darwins Theory of Evolution, which is while he was often called “Darwin’s Bulldog”. Last not least, he met his wife Nettie in Australia as a young man but didn’t have the money to marry her. So he went home and worked his guts out for 8 long years, after which he could afford to bring her to London and marry her. They lived happily ever after and had lots of children.
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Katie Marriott answered on 19 Jun 2011:
My science teachers were brilliant when I was at school. We did lots of experiments and they made science really fun (which it is!!).
Famous scientists I would have to say Lord Professor Robert Winston. He isn’t someone who looks at evolution but he has done a lot of research that as allowed women to have children. His TV programmes Child of Our Time is also brilliant!
More recently I have a great admiration for Professor David Nutt. He used to be a Science Advisor for the Government before he was sacked due to some really contraversial ideas about drug and alcohol!
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Ed Morrison answered on 19 Jun 2011:
Scientifically, Ronald Fisher was an inspiration. In the first half of 20th Century, he made many important developments in evolutionary biology, and he was also a great mathematician who devleoped lots of statistical tests that are still used today.
Outside science, Martin Luther is an inspiration. He stood up to what he saw as the religious hypocrisy of his time and had a huge effect on Christianity in Europe.
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Sam Tazzyman answered on 20 Jun 2011:
I find David Attenborough’s TV programmes very inspirational because they reveal the fascinating variety of the natural world. More personally, I wouldn’t be where I am today were it not for my Maths teacher at school who went out of his way to allow me and a few other students in my year to take Further Maths at A-Level, which was unheard of at my school.
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