Hi Daniel, It is very difficult to choose only one. There is almost one I can name for each speciality of science… Maybe Albert Einstein is the one I would select. If you come to the science museum in Oxford, you can see a black board where he wrote some equations during one of his lectures in Oxford. The university decided to keep the board, never clean it and never use it again!
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Georgia Orton
answered on 16 Nov 2019:
last edited 16 Nov 2019 8:12 pm
This is a tough question since all the work scientists do is based on work done by those before them. I’m not sure I could pick just one. Neverthelss there are exceptional minds which stand out, for example Albert Einstein, Alan Turing etc
As Georgia said it’s really difficult to attribute a discovery entirely to one person because every scientist is building upon the knowledge and findings of a lot of other scientists!
Jöns Jacob Berzelius- he’s considered one of the founders of modern chemistry, and discovered Silicon (the element my research is focussed around). He also did a lot of work in the analysis of proteins, which I also work with. So he’s sort of a founding father of my research project! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6ns_Jacob_Berzelius
I am also a huge fan of anyone who’s ever won an Ig Nobel Prize
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