• Question: Which scientist do you most appreciate

    Asked by aarony96 to Hitesh, Hywel, Mae, Nik, Tiffany on 14 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by corri24, magdapdhias.
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      Nicola Ibberson answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      My most inspirational scientist is Rosalind Franklin – also known as the Dark Lady of DNA. She was heavily involved in the research into the structure of DNA, but never really got the credit she deserved for it (Watson and Crick took the Nobel Prize for the discovery instead). She knew what she wanted, and had decided she wanted to be a scientist at just fifteen, but sadly she died from ovarian cancer very young. Her story is a very interesting one!

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      Tiffany Taylor answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      I have a lot of respect for Darwin. He looked at the world around him, unclouded by the opinions of others. He had an amazing idea, and spent his whole life trying to prove it even though he was faced with lots of judgement from the public and the church. He stuck by his guns… and he was right.

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      Hitesh Dave answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      My favourite scientist is Charles Darwin…You must have heard about him…

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      Hywel Owen answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      Richard Feynman – his way of looking at the world encapsulates what it means to do science.

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      Mae Woods answered on 15 Jun 2012:

      This is difficult because I like all scientists, especially the famous ones you probably know of like Einstein. However one of my favorite books is contact mechanics by Kenneth Johnson.

      Johnson is an engineer and he took some work from a scientist called Hertz and made it very easy to understand and made important findings on how forces act on bodies in contact.

      Have you ever bounced a bouncy ball on the floor and it sprung back at you rather than away? Johnson used maths to prove why this happens and showed it was a consequence of a particular type of contact force. He titled this work “the bounce of superball”. Super indeed!

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