• Question: Who is your fave scientist?

    Asked by holly123456789 to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 12 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by hannahwhitehead, thebigmacs.
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      David Christensen answered on 12 Nov 2013:

      I’m a big fan of Alan Turing. He was one of the early computer scientists who almost started computer science and artificial intelligence really.

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      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 12 Nov 2013:

      Hi holly123456789

      I think for me it has to be Charles Darwin, along with Alfred Russel Wallace he changed our thoughts about human being’s place in the natural world, quite an achievement. Plus he had a great beard!

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      Anzy Miller answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I’m going to say a recent Nobel prize winner – last year Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel prize for his work on generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. What he did was take some cells (like skin cells) which can’t make any other type of cell and turn them back into embryonic-like stem cells – and these cells can make ANY type of cell in the body. Pretty amazing stuff, and he seems like a friendly man 🙂

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