• Question: if you could choose any scientist to work with, who would you choose and why ?

    Asked by mattsaunders4711 to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Hi Matt.

      Good question.Of people still alive, I think I’d choose Dr. Charlie Veron. He’s a Coral Reef scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences which is probably the best place for Coral Reef research on the planet. Very widely read, and I’d love to be able to learn from him.

      Of all scientists ever, I think I’d have to go with Mr Charles Darwin, if only to ask him how he felt about his theory of evolution, how it would be labelled as blasphemy when published and how he gained the courage to publish it.

    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I would really like the chance to talk with Einstein. He has some really funny quotes – and I just wonder if he were that funny in person.

    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Hmmm, given my recent Antarctic cruise I would probably go for the explorer Ernest Shackleton (OK, nearly a scientist, he had scientists on his team). I’d like to get a sense for how he managed to lead a group of men through really tough conditions in the Antarctic, and get them all home alive.

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Probably a guy called Nansen, who was a Norwegian explorer and oceanographer at the turn of the last century. He suggested a result that was then ignored for the next hundred years, but has recently been shown to actually be true!

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