• Question: who is your role model scientist?

    Asked by bjpinate to Carol, Ellie, John, Philip, Rebecca on 22 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by zugarplumfairy.
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      Carol White answered on 22 Jun 2012:

      Marie Curie!

      She discovered two elements (Radium and Polonium), was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize AND the first person to receive two Nobel prizes in different subjects!

      There are lots of really amazing scientists out there, so maybe I’ll change my mind as I learn more about them.

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      Rebecca Lacey answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      My role model scientist is Alan Turing. He is a mathematician who worked on cracking the Enigma codes in the Second World War. He was in the i newspaper today as it is the 100th anniversary of his birth (he was born on 23rd June 1912). He was one of the key people who invented computers and so was a very important scientist. Here is some more information on him from the BBC:

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing

      I recently went to visit Bletchley Park where he worked on the codebreaking during the war, which was really interesting. http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

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      Philip Glasson answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Richard Feynman !!
      He’s was an American theatrical physics.

      He helped solve the puzzle of what happened in the challenger space shuttle disaster
      Worked on the Manhattan Project
      He invented 3 new fields of science.
      For sore and initiated the revolution in nanotechnology, quantum mechanics, and quantum computer.
      He Won the Noble Price
      And He always.. always kept science fun !

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