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Asked by alexroadhouse to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 23 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by edwardsmith0000, indrit, sciencylad4, ilovepokemon, scienceismylyfe.
Question: Who Is Your Favorite Scientist and Why??
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Tim Stephens answered on 23 Jun 2012:
My wife is also a scientist so it’d be her. 🙂
I don’t really have a favourite famous scientist, but if I have to choose I think that it would be the guys who first worked on the foundations of lasers. The person who made the first laser was Ted Maiman, but he built on the work of some others (whose names I’d need to google). Without their work, I wouldn’t have a job!
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Tom Lister answered on 25 Jun 2012:
Socrates.
He founded new ways of thinking, ways in which people could build upon what had been done before. He pretty much invented the way in which we do science now.
Also responsible for a huge revolution of ideas in ancient Greece, which were advanced upon a little about a thousand years later in the Middle East but not in the West until Galileo. In comparison, Einstein’s new ideas (not particularly new ways of thinking) have been around for 100 years.
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Tianfu Yao answered on 25 Jun 2012:
It is very hard to say for me. And the first name appearing in my mind is my supervisor:)
There are many scientists working for the development of fiber lasers, like Nobel Laureate Gao Kun and ORC director David Payne. They atttibutes a lot in the optical fibre research. And thanks to their new revolutions, the fibre lasers can achieve such a success in the new century. -
Philippa Bird answered on 25 Jun 2012:
Dorothy Hodgkin, I read her biography when I was 16 and applying to uni and it taught me not to take the easy option every time because the hard option can be so much more rewarding (and in her case lead to a Nobel Prize!).
Also, she had three kids and won a Nobel Prize, AND did loads of charity work in later life!
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