• Question: Who is your favorite scientist and why?

    Asked by meou532kaon83 to scottgriffiths, sandrarobertson, Richard on 11 Nov 2025. This question was also asked by mr bean.
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      Sandra Robertson answered on 11 Nov 2025:

      Choosing a favourite is difficult, but one I have always been curious to find out more about is Marie Curie. I have visited the Pantheon in Paris where there is a memorial to Marie and her husband Pierre. However, I still have on my Paris bucket list to visit the Marie Curie Museum, which is located in one of her former laboratories, which I think would be a really interesting place to visit. To be able to see some of the original equipment she used and some of her written notes or photos would really bring her to life for me.

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    melissau commented on :

    My favourite scientist is Jane Goodall – you may have read about her recently as she died a couple of months ago. She became a scientist when there were very few women in science and she approached her work, studying primates in the wild in East Africa, in a different way from what had been traditionally done. For example, she gave them individual names (previously scientists had simply used numbers) and took time to understand individual behaviour and patterns of behaviour to identify that these animals had feelings and emotions (now we call this ‘sentience’).