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midnight armadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:24 PM
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Name that scientist!
Ok kids, let's play a game. WITHOUT resorting to Google, etc., right now, off the top of your head, name a famous scientist.

Good. Now name a LIVING scientist. Off the top of your head, no cheating allowed. Doctors do NOT count, so Bill Frist and Howard Dean are out. Who comes to mind? Was it tough? Considering how huge the impact of science is on our lives, you'd think more would be in the spotlight...
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:27 PM
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1. M. Curie and Brian Druker
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SouthernDaisy Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:46 PM
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21. armadillo said living.
nt
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:50 PM
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28. Armadillo said name a famous scientist and name one living. I did both.
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 04:00 PM by HuckleB
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:28 PM
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2. off subject, but the penguin movie is hilarious...
Teller just died, so I'd go with ol' whatsisname, the Nobel prize guy....

Point taken, armadillo... :-(
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midnight armadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:44 PM
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20. Swiped from another BB
I found the penguin movie in some guy's sig on another bulletin board, can't remember which one. I hope he doesn't mind my linking to it :-)
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:28 PM
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3. does it have to be an important scientist
cuz there are about 30 of us on my floor of the building alone...

:hi:
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:31 PM
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4. Steven Hawking
for the living.

Einstein, Curie, Tesla, Hypatia, Salk, Teller, Copernicus, Pavlov, Galileo, Jenner, Pasteur...
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:32 PM
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5. Michael Faraday
Stephen Hawking
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:34 PM
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6. Dr. Stephen Hawking
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 01:36 PM by 2dumb2beprez
just off the top of my head.

on edit: add Dr. Jane Goodall-primate research and Dr. Kevin Warwick- cybernetics.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:34 PM
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7. Steven Weinberg
Jared Diamond. Richard Dawkins. Stephen Hawking. E.O. Wilson.

You're that they don't come easily.
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:38 PM
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15. D'oh! Beat me to it...
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:35 PM
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8. Stephen Weinberg
Nobel laureate physicist for his Electroweak unification theory.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:36 PM
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9. "light bulb goes off" Crick...one of the discoverers of DNA
Forget the other scientist.
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:37 PM
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13. Watson
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:37 PM
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14. And Watson. eom
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:36 PM
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10. Brian Greene, String theorist
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:37 PM
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11. Does it count if I rattle off the professors in the UIUC physics dept?
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 01:37 PM by TXlib
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:37 PM
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12. Everett Gibson
NASA biologist.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:38 PM
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16. Albert Einstien...Linus Pauling
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:38 PM
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17. Arthur C. Clarke, who is 86 today
Inventor of the communication sattelite and author of "2001"
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:42 PM
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19. Still my favorite SF author...
Happy BD, Sir Arthur! :toast:

http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Biography.html
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pmbryant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:39 PM
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18. I live with one
Not really fair for me to answer this, I guess.

:-)

--Peter
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SouthernDaisy Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 01:50 PM
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22. me too....my hubby
and he actually met Stephen Hawking in Cambridge!
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phaseolus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 02:00 PM
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23. Stephen Pinker
um... unless I made a mistake & it's "Steven"...

Studies brains, consciousness, stuff like that. Writes highly regarded books. Too smart to be a Republican. Great hair for a scientist.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 02:19 PM
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24. Jane Goodall. n/t
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 02:21 PM
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25. Richard Dawkins, Tom Holtz, Anna Behrensmeyer, Jack Horner....
.... I guess it helps to work in the sciences :-)
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 02:25 PM
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26. Marie Curie
:D
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:47 PM
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27. I want that video!
I keep looking at it and laughing my butt off....I just can't figure out how to capture it....would you mind telling me how?
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:56 PM
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29. Bob Grubbs
Barry Sharpless

K.C. Nicolau

E.J. Corey

Phil Magnus

Teruaki Mukaiyama.

It's too bad that when people are asked to name living scientists they come up with people like Isaac Newton and Gene Roddenberry.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:59 PM
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30. Birute Galdikas
one of the world's leading experts on orangutans...one of the three original "Leakey's Ladies."
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:00 PM
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31. Roger Penrose
Theoretical physicist and mathematician. Steven Hawking called him the smartest man he'd ever met.

How smart and knowledgeable do you have to be to have Hawking say that about you???
The Professor
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omshanti Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:08 PM
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32. Eric Kandel, Peter Mansfield, Robert Gallo
Kandel won the Nobel prize for Science in 2002, author of a neuroscience textbook (The Kandel and Schwartz one). I got to hear him speak last year and it was awesome!
I also have met Sir Peter Mansfield who won the Nobel Prize this year, and Dr. Robert Gallo, who discovered the HIV virus.
But then again I'm a science geek...
:)
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:11 PM
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33. ...
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 04:12 PM by bicentennial_baby
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:14 PM
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34. Edward Osborne Wilson (nt)
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