• Question: who is your favourite scientist?

    Asked by anon-39932 on 4 Nov 2022.
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      Vincent Monchal answered on 4 Nov 2022:

      I don’t have a favourite scientist, I don’t think there is scientist that are better than others. Scientists are a big community, and you are a part of it if you do science, we are all equal, all specialised in our own subject.

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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 4 Nov 2022:

      my wife! but not for scientific reasons 🙂

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      Lyndsey Moore answered on 8 Nov 2022:

      I don’t know if I have a favourite scientist, but I certainly have scientists who I admire and look up to! Scientists like Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Katherine Johnson and Ada Lovelace made huge strides in their respective fields.

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      Anna Desmond answered on 25 Nov 2022:

      One of my favourite microbiologists is Mary Hunt. We all know Alexander Fleming for the discovery of the first antibiotic called penicillin, however, he couldn’t get his mould strain to produce a high enough of medicine to give to the people who were sick. Mary Hunt was invited on to the time to help find a mould strain. She would go food markets and try to find pieces of fruit with mould on them and she was known as the weird lady looking for mouldy food. In 1943, She found a mould which was able to produce loads of medicine to help the sick on a mouldy cantaloupe melon. I think Mary Hunt doesn’t get enough credit for her discovery.

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