• Question: Who is your favourite scientist

    Asked by to James, Jennifer, Kim, Liam, Ricardo on 13 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Liam Harvey answered on 13 Jun 2014:

      Hi bananadude!
      Its got to be Charles Darwin for me. The father of modern Biology!

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      Jennifer Stephens answered on 14 Jun 2014:

      Hey bananadude
      It has to be David Attenborough. He’s a brilliant communicator and has inspired more than one generation to become scientists. I remember watching his documentary called The Private Life of Plants while I was at Uni studying botany and it inspired me to continue and become a Plant Scientist.

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      Kimberley Lowe answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hi bananadude 🙂

      I have to agree with Liam and Jennifer there – both of their answers are great. David Attenborough’s Blue Planet is my all time favourite documentary series and strengthened my dreams to get into Marine Biology

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      James Taylor answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      For me it is a guy called Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. He does popular science in Australia and is just an unbelievably great communicator. I met him many times when I was at The University of Sydney (he has lots of podcasts if you want to look him up). He also won an Ig Noble prize (kind of the opposite to the Nobel prize) for studying belly button fluff. The Ig Nobles reward science that has not benefit to humanity (but can be very funny).

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      Ricardo Ramirez answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I would think that Edward Jenner, he developed the first vaccine. It will always amaze me how he figured out that the people milking wouldn’t get smallpox. This is because the cows have a virus that is similar and when humans get exposed to it, they learn to recognise this type of virus. With current understanding of viruses it may seem trivial (to someone in the field, anyway), but in the XIX century, getting it right was something incredible!

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