• Question: Who is your favourite scientist and why?

    Asked by lolliiex to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by mizzbibi.
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      Michaela Livingstone answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Favourite scientist – someone asked me this on Friday night actually – I couldn’t think of one seriously – I admire so many, but I decided on Brian Cox just because he can make a tin of water sound exciting!!

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      Louise Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Barbara McClintock wins my all-time prize (you can read more about her on my profile), because she saw something really new and she persevreed for ages without the recognition she deserved. She was wrong about a lot of things, but when she was wrong, she was wrong in a new and interesting way that opened up whole new subject areas.

      Alfred Sturtevant is another favourite, because he invented the genetic map when he was only 19. He and his supervisor Thomas Hunt Morgan did some amazing work with genes decades before anyone had a clue what they really were or what they were made of.

      Of scientists who are still alive, I’d say the Japanese geneticist Tomoko Ohta because she changed the way we think about evolution.

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      Steven Kiddle answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I like the idea of Einstein because he thought outside the box, he didn’t even work in a university

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      Sian Harding answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I never know how to answer this question. I dont have a hero or a role model and never have.

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      Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Darwin because he had to think outside everything that his society had lead him to believe and he tried not to be too confrontational in introducing and defending his work.

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