• Question: which is your favourite scientist(s) and why

    Asked by bad man eggy to Elizabeth, James, Martin, Martin, Rob on 12 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by ev47.
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      James Coombs OBrien answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      My Favourite scientist is Antoine Lavoisier.

      He lived back in the 1700’s and is often called “the father of modern day chemistry”.

      He had loads of discoveries back in his day many of them to do with oxygen and hydrogen. He named both of these elements and found out that we breath in oxygen and need it to live!

      The reason he is my favourite scientist is because he developed the type of chemistry we do today which involved a lot of weighing and accuracy. With out him who knows how far behind science would be!

      Thanks.

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      Robert Woolfson answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      My favourite scientist is a physicist, a guy called Richard Feynman.

      He was an absolutely amazing guy. He helped shape the way physicists think about a lot of what they do, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He worked at Los Alamos developing the first atomic bombs at the start of his career and at the end of it he helped find out why the space shuttle challenger exploded in the sky.

      He was also very colourful. He was famous for playing the bongo’s, cracking safes and being a massive pain for anyone in authority. Definitely one of my heroes.

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      Elizabeth Cooper answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Mine would be Marie Curie.She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person and only woman to win twice.

      She did a lot of work on radioactivity with her husband. In July 1898 the Curies announced the discovery of a new chemical element, polonium. At the end of the year, they announced the discovery of another, radium.

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      Martin Wieczysty answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      I would say Michael Faraday. He was not a scientist to begin with – in those days you had to have a lot of money to become a scientist. He was a book-binder and made books for the Royal Institute (a collection of scientists). He began reading the books he was binding and became a self-taught scientist – making important discoveries in physics and chemistry.

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