• Question: Who's your favourite scientist?

    Asked by anon-39539 on 14 Nov 2022.
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      Vincent Monchal answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      I don’t have any favourite scientist, if I had to say one name, I will say Marie Curie.

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      Muhammad Farhan Khan answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      George Boole, he was from Cork.

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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      my wife!

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      Vanessa Rodrigues answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      My favorite and role model is my PhD supervisor Prof. Hema Ramachandran, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
      She taught me to learn how to learn science, to solve challenges by asking simple questions.

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      Hao Shi answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      The past few hundred years have seen a technological explosion and there have been so many scientists who have shone like the sun, all of whom are an asset to our species. So it’s hard to pick a favorite, but if we combine their scientific achievements with their lives, I think I might be more partial to Stephen William Hawking. Because he was not only a great man in science but also a fighter in life.

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      Siobhán O'Flaherty answered on 15 Nov 2022:

      Dr Bruce Merrifield’s work in terms of peptide chemistry has been integral so I would say he is my favourite. He won a Nobel Prize for his work.

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      Simon Sorensen answered on 15 Nov 2022:

      Nikola Tesla, a prototype mad genius of a scientist.

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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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      Cristina Cuesta Marti answered on 30 Nov 2022:

      I admire multiple scientist, but if I need to highlight someone, I would say Rosalind Franklin for what she meant for science, and specifically for woman in science.

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