• Question: have you meet any famous scientists?

    Asked by morgymymoo to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 11 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by lizziemoo.
    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 11 Mar 2013:


      I was at a Nobel Prize for Physics meeting before, I was working as a science reporter. I got to meet a lot of famous physicists who discovered some very cool stuff about particle physics. Some important physicists where I work now also invented new types of scanners, so they’re famous in medicine

    • Photo: Leila Nichol

      Leila Nichol answered on 11 Mar 2013:


      I met a very well known scientist called Marcel Van Herk from the Netherlands, he’s like the modern day Einstein (and has the mad hair to match!) and a bit of a celebrity in the field! This was at a conference and I was a bit starstruck at first but he was great fun and we went out partying until 4am!

    • Photo: Charlotte Kemp

      Charlotte Kemp answered on 11 Mar 2013:


      The most famous scientists I’ve met all do sleep research. Prof Jim Horne is one of the most well known sleep scientists and has been on the tv and radio talking about sleep. He’s even been on Police, Camera, Action talking about sleepy drivers falling asleep at the wheel.

    • Photo: Frank Soboczenski

      Frank Soboczenski answered on 20 Mar 2013:


      Yes, I met Ben Shneiderman and Alan Dix both are very famous scientists in my area.

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