• Question: if you had the chance to dine with any scientist, dead or alive, who would you choose?

    Asked by fredtheflamelord to Amy, Drew, Julia, Kimberley, Sara on 14 Jun 2011.
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      Sara Imari Walker answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Hi again Fred! Good question. Hmmmmmm this one is tough! Really tough, there are so many good ones … Do I have to pick just one? Well if it is just one, I would say Marie Curie. I just want to know what it was like to be her. I have seen these fabulous pictures of her front and center with all the biggest names in physics (as she should be) with Einstein, Bohr, Rutherford …..the only woman and front and center. Plus she has won two nobel prizes, one in chemistry and one in physics! And, her daughter even won a nobel prize. Just seems like she would have a lot of wisdom to impart =)

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      Kimberley Bryon answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      That is a really really tough question. A random fact, I sat next to Sir Edward Southern at a dinner party once and shamed myself by calling him Ed. He said “That’s Sir Southern, to you”. Opps.

      With that in mind, perhaps I shouldn’t be allowed to sit next to anyone famous. Barbara McClintock was a very clever geneticist so either her for her genetetics knowledge or Sydney Brenner who came up with the concept of using worms for research.

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      Drew Rae answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      A lot of great scientists had reputations as being real jerks. I think for dinner table conversation I would get along with Richard Dawkins or PZ Myers quite well, and find them really interesting to talk to.

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      Amy MacQueen answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I guess if I had to choose it would be my best science friend in the world Hema …because its always nice to go for dinner with your best mate right? But, if we’re talking famous I would say Sir Alexander Fleming because;
      1. He was a biologist – who wrote many articles on immunology
      2. He discovered penicillin (among other things) which has proved to be life-saving and revolutionary for the treatment of many serious killers including TB
      3. He was Scottish
      4. He was one of 4 kids
      5. He grew up on a farm
      6. He got a Nobel prize the year the second World War ended for his contribution to science…it would be interesting to hear how science research progressed in a country at war!

      Basically we have a lot in common – apart from the Nobel prize and the discovery!!! 🙂

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      Julia Griffen answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I;d like to dine with richard attenborough… he’s so cool!

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