• Question: If you could be any famous scientist for a day, who would you be?

    Asked by E_kelleher to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Laura Schofield

      Laura Schofield answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Well I wouldn’t pick anyone that has died already…that’d be a pretty boring day! I’d go for someone like Ada Yonath (the last woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009). I think it would be amazing to be a Nobel prize winner for a day. Or I’d be Jane Goodall who works with chimpanzees and has done lots of work with primates over her career. It’d be pretty cool to be her and go and play with chimps for a day!!

    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I’d say it would have to be George M. Whitesides, who is a genius when it comes to chemistry and observing what is happening through spectroscopy.

    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I think the famous scientist I’d want to be is Dr Brian May… do a couple of observations, research meetings, but then he’d have to have a rock concert booked that night so I could play on stage with Queen 😉

    • Photo: Francesca Palombo

      Francesca Palombo answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I would love being Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who discovered the ‘Raman’ effect.

    • Photo: Rebecca Ingle

      Rebecca Ingle answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I like Andrew’s answer for this one!

      Assuming it wouldn’t mean being dead and I could go back in time too, I’d love to be Paul Dirac for a day, just to see how he thought and to get to meet other scientists involved in quantum mechanics.

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