• Question: who is your favourite scientist?

    Asked by bjgregory to Claire, Greg, Jane, Jo, Nuruz, Vicki on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by jessicab.
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      Jane Cleal answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I like Dr Alice Roberts off the tv because she explains things about the human body really well

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      Vicki Onions answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hi bjgregory
      I think it would be Robert Winston (the guy with the big moustache) – i think he has done marvells in communicating science and i love his tv programmes, they are always so so interesting

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      Claire O'Donnell answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Einstein because he did all his workmin the evenings after work and never got big headed. I like all those early women scientists too like Marie Curie and the woman who did all the x ray crystallography on the structure of DNA because tehy had to overcome all those barriers that affected women scientists then

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      Jo Broadbent answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Charles Darwin – we’re all so familiar with the theory of evolution these days, but what an amazing deduction for him to make. He made careful observations, weighed the evidence and the alternatives, and came to his conclusions. At the time he lived it was such a deductive leap, plus a very brave theory to publish given the religious nature of the time. Jo

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      Greg FitzHarris answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hmmm. Theodore Boveri. Worked out that the spindle (see my profile) regulates cell divisions, and that if the spindle components dont replicate properly this can cause cancer (which is true). He worked all this out in the 1800s!! Heroic!!

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