• Question: What is your favourite scientist and why?

    Asked by ♪ Vashish ♪ to Usman, Miranda, James, Freya, Daniel on 19 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Dr Kev.
    • Photo: Usman Bashir

      Usman Bashir answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      Alan Turing. He broke the enigma code in WWII saving million+ lives

    • Photo: James Gilbert

      James Gilbert answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      Perhaps Marie Curie – she was a pioneer of so many things.

    • Photo: Freya Wilson

      Freya Wilson answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      Alan Turing was certainly an amazing guy- he started my field of work! He also deserves a lot of recognition for the horrible was he was treated by the government for being gay which was illegal at the time. So I think I agree with Usman that he is a bit of a hero for me.
      Another scientist is probably Richard Feynman – he had so much foresight and a knack for explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward way. His approach to science was groundbreaking.
      Finally a shout out to Rosalind Franklin who discovered DNA though lots of people would never give her credit for it until a while after her death because she was female- she was a very intelligent scientist and I admire what she did.

    • Photo: Miranda Jackson

      Miranda Jackson answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      I can think of Henrietta Leavitt, who discovered the relationship between period and luminosity of Cepheid variables, but I really admire any female scientist who excelled in the early 20th century despite the fact that it was a very male-dominated environment.

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