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Asked by Jammy04 to Angus, Waqar, Jenni, Catherine, Melissa on 12 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by 982merf48, Swagboy?, 392merf43, TeeToe.
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Angus Cook answered on 12 Jun 2016:
I would guess my favourite scientist would be Richard Feynman.
(This video is an hour long, but you can get the gist of him from the first 40 seconds)I like him because he had a great philosophy about ideas and teaching: ‘If we can’t explain it to students, then we don’t understand it ourselves’ (or words to that effect).
He’s probably part of the reason I like teaching / demonstrating in my research. Teaching someone else something is a great opportunity to make sure you know it well enough yourself.
He was also very interested in lots and lots of things in the world around him, not just in his own research, which is a great reminder not to be too absorbed in your own work.He did also help develop the atomic bomb though, so that’s probably a negative…
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Jenni Rodd answered on 13 Jun 2016:
Really really hard question!
I think my favourite scientist is Dorothy Bishop who works to understand why some children find understanding language very difficult. She is a real role model to me as she has a passion for doing the best possible science to help children. She has invented many tests that teachers use to find out which children in a classroom might have language difficulties.
There is a video of here here:
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Waqar Ahmed answered on 13 Jun 2016:
My favourite scientist is Michael Faraday because his passion for discovery and science was not limited to what he was taught at school. When he was young, he went out and listened to lectures by teachers and scientists, without being told to go! He is responsible for a lot of inventions we take for granted.
I like the ice cream rotating cone as an invention. Would you have thought of it? Can you invent something? Here’s the video:
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Melissa Ladyman answered on 13 Jun 2016:
What a hard question!
1) My favourite scientist is Dmitri Mendeleev- he was a Russian scientist who figured out how the chemical elements (like oxygen, iron and hydrogen) fit into the periodic table. As a chemist I use the periodic table all the time- it’s like a cheat sheet and helps you work out how different chemicals might react to one another. Mendeleev was the first one to figure out that there are groups of elements that are similar- without Mendeleev Chemistry would be so much more difficult!
2) My favourite invention is completely different! I think the internet is one of the most amazing inventions- just look at what we’re doing right now! The internet has made the world so much smaller. We can talk to people on the other side of the world- share our ideas, and our scientific discussions. But it’s not as simple as that! The internet only works because of our ability to share language through writing, so really I think that writing is one of the most important inventions!
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