• Question: Who are your favourite scientists and why? :)

    Asked by Carmen to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 13 Mar 2015.
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      Samantha Terry answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      My favourite scientist is probably on of the guys who won the nobel prize for graphene, as it makes their contribution to science was very simple yet effective.

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      Clare Devery answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      One of my favourite scientists is Louis de Broglie. He was a physicist that came up with many of the theories that we now know to be true about electrons. He had a very different way of thinking than anybody else back then. I also really admire Marie Curie for her radiation research. She died from radiation exposure related causes, but that was before the dangers were fully understood. Her work changed the game for medical physics.
      Finally , Stephen Chu. Stephen Chu is still alive, and is an example of a physicist who’s work I greatly admire from recent times. He worked with lasers to cool atoms to really low temperatures. I became aware of his work when he came as an invited guest to speak at a Nobel laureate lecture series at Dublin City University. He gave a fantastic presentation and is a great example of modern day physics.

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      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Nicola Tesla ! This guy was an electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, designer, inventor and physicist! Everybody in his time thought he was crazy !

      Things he did ? AC currents ? X-rays? Wireless energy transfer? Radio?

      You name it ! A lot of his ideas will still power the future!

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      anon answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      James Clerk Maxwell – he was the man! He was one of the greatest influences in physics.

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      Paul Booker answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      All of the scientists already mentioned are great – I’d add Richard Feynman in to the mix too though! He was a physicist who liked to try a bit of everything and didn’t care what people thought of him. He shared the Nobel prize for physics for developing quantum theory, after a NASA mission went wrong he helped lead the investigation, he gave possibly the best physics lectures ever etc etc. He also had lots of unexpected hobbies for a theoretical physicist like playing the bongos and picking the locks of safes!

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