• Question: did you talk with a famous scientist?

    Asked by Sergio Ehlis to Anais, katy, Lauren, Richard, Stuart on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Lauren Laing

      Lauren Laing answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I have met a few people who are ‘famous’ in the fish science world!! It would be pretty cool to meet more famous scientists though! Have you?

    • Photo: Anais Kahve

      Anais Kahve answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I have only had a conversation with one famous scientist. He’s called Professor John Hardy. He developed the Amyloid Hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease. Hopefully I will get to meet more famous scientists in the future!

    • Photo: Richard Friend

      Richard Friend answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Never personally, no. Stephen Hawking lives in Cambridge and some of my friends have said they’ve seen him around town, but I haven’t! I’ve been to see a few talks too, Brian Cox, Simon Singh, Ben Goldacre, Stephen Jones, but I was right at the back and never to to say hello.

    • Photo: Stuart Atkinson

      Stuart Atkinson answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      There are usually interesting speakers at graduations. I’ve seen Prof Sir Robert May talk (yes I know, his name isn’t that famous!) but he is one of the people that founded what we now call ‘Chaos Theory’. I also saw the person who developed the iPod speak at another graduation. And I was excited to attend a small talk by Roger Penrose (famous cosmologist, who was an inspiration to Steven Hawking, prior to working with him – you’ll have seen someone play him if you saw The Theory of Everything).

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