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Asked by anon-318221 on 15 Mar 2022.
Question: Who’s your favourite scientist
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Charlay Wood answered on 15 Mar 2022:
Wow! There are so many great scientists! Hard to have a favourite. But mine has to be Democritus. He was from Ancient Greece over 2000 years ago. And he first theorised the atom. Sadly all of his books were destroyed because noone believed him. But now, we know that atoms do exist! So he was right!
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Lesley Howell answered on 15 Mar 2022:
Rosalind Franklin. I did my PhD on Nucleic acids (DNA) and her work was critical to Watson and Crick solving the structure of DNA. However she did not get the credit. My friend who also works on nucleic acids named her son Franklin after her!
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Ian McKinley answered on 16 Mar 2022:
If you mean what scientist I admire most, it would be my colleague Julie West. She was originally a school teacher before she came to work with me as a laboratory technician. While still a technician, she carried out the first study of microbiology of radioactive waste disposal as a hobby project. This was a sensation and she was rapidly promoted, eventually becoming a professor. As one of very few women in this field, she played an extremely important role in bringing in and training other women. She was awarded an MBE for her work a couple of years ago.
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Sophie Strickfuss answered on 16 Mar 2022:
My favourite scientist is Carl Sagan because I learned so much from his books as a teenager.
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Andrew Parrott answered on 16 Mar 2022:
Hard to pick just one out the large number of have influenced, taught, or worked with me. If I have to choose it would maybe be my PhD supervisor as he got me interested in Green Chemistry in the first place (before I even went to Uni at a chance meeting at an open day) and then later into Research.
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