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I need to write an essay for college about a scientific hero, that is living.

The scientific hero needs to be from these subjects:

archaeology, architecture, astronomy, design, engineering, the environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, palaeontology, psychology, science, technology.

I have no Inspiration right now .. so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of who I could write about :)

Keep in mind the person has to be alive :p

Damn, I had several decent suggestions but all those people are dead. Now, someone from my high school won a nobel prize for something to do with science but i forget their name, but at least they are lving.

I need to write an essay for college about a scientific hero, that is living.

The scientific hero needs to be from these subjects:

archaeology, architecture, astronomy, design, engineering, the environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, palaeontology, psychology, science, technology.

I have no Inspiration right now .. so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of who I could write about :).

Keep in mind the person has to be alive :P

Darn, I would have said Richard Feynman.

I need to write an essay for college about a scientific hero, that is living.

The scientific hero needs to be from these subjects:

archaeology, architecture, astronomy, design, engineering, the environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, palaeontology, psychology, science, technology.

I have no Inspiration right now .. so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of who I could write about :)

Keep in mind the person has to be alive :p

Michael Behe would be a good subject for your article. Another suggestion, Benjamin Carson M.D.

Darn, I would have said Richard Feynman.

He was actually one of my choices :) until I realized he was dead ..

Michael Behe would be a good subject for your article.
No, it needs to be a scientist, not a religious appologist.

No, it needs to be a scientist, not a religious appologist.

Stephen Hawking.

http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0200/news/images/2.jpg

Lord Winston

No, I'm not taking the piss. He is a proper scientist.

And he looks like a teddy bear

:fluffle:

If this is for science, then the blatantly obvious thing to do is write about the teacher who set you the essay claming "You are my hero in the field of science"....

No, it needs to be a scientist, not a religious appologist.

He's a molecular biologist with a Ph.D. Last time I checked that was sufficient credentials to qualify one as a scientist. No comment on doctor Carson??

He's a molecular biologist with a Ph.D. Last time I checked that was sufficient credentials to qualify one as a scientist. No comment on doctor Carson??
Yeah, he's a molecular biologist. I was just commenting on his rather unscientific lack of curiosity. He claims that the molecular machinery of the modern cell is too complex to have evolved. People once said that about flight and vision, but time and discovery has proved them wrong. Behe just gives up and blames god rather than searching and experimenting. Where would science be if everytime there was a difficult problem the scientists gave up and resorted to a supernatural explanation?

I'm not familiar with Dr. Carson. I can't comment on him, and he wasn't mentioned when I quoted your post.

http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0200/news/images/2.jpg

Lord Winston

No, I'm not taking the piss. He is a proper scientist.

And he looks like a teddy bear

:fluffle:

heh, I know that guy .. he does BBC programs all the time :p

You must choose Stephen Hawking. The man is a miracle.

This young scientist (http://www.ldolphin.org/dethrone.html) has a lot of potential.. I will consider him a hero if he does prove Einstein wrong, and thus destroy the foundation of quantam mechanics... forever!! [Mandark laugh] Yahaha..haha.. ha..!! [/Mandark laugh]

If only this was ~2008 and we have more details on his work.

You must choose Stephen Hawking. The man is a miracle.

This young scientist (http://www.ldolphin.org/dethrone.html) has a lot of potential.. I will consider him a hero if he does prove Einstein wrong, and thus destroy the foundation of quantam mechanics... forever!! [Mandark laugh] Yahaha..haha.. ha..!! [/Mandark laugh]

If only this was ~2008 and we have more details on his work.

Einstein formed the foundation of quantum mechanics? I thought he was the general and special relativity dude who said that God didn't play dice with the universe.

If this is for science, then the blatantly obvious thing to do is write about the teacher who set you the essay claming "You are my hero in the field of science".... heh heh heh.. good idea!

Living hero in psychology: Nancy McWilliams. She may actually save psychological theorizing from the lull into which it has been driven by the pharmaceutical companies.

You must choose Stephen Hawking. The man is a miracle.

Make sure to make use of the contents in of this site here (http://www.mchawking.com/). If you decide to go down this route.

Thanks for the help guys, keep it coming :D

I'm particually intrigued by this guy - Dr Joâo Magueijo, I just can't find much information on him ..

desmond morris

Einstein formed the foundation of quantum mechanics? I thought he was the general and special relativity dude who said that God didn't play dice with the universe.

He did that, too.

But first he formed the foundation of quantum mechanics with his paper on the photoelectric effect.

Just because he started it never meant he had to like its implications.

I'm not familiar with Dr. Carson. I can't comment on him, and he wasn't mentioned when I quoted your post.

Do some reading on the seperation of Siamese twins. He's the foremost expert in the field.

Kevin Warwick (http://www.kevinwarwick.com/) is a pretty interesting chap: goes in for having surgical implants put into his own body as part of his research into cybernetics. A passing reference to the performance artist Stelarc (http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/) who is probably more of a performance artist, rather than a scientist, and to the engineer/scientist Mark Pauline (http://www.srl.org/) , would show that you had a reasonably wide awareness of other similar experiments.

I think it is probably fairly safe to say that the vast majority of essays that your teacher gets will be on Hawking, so a bit of variety will probably do some good.

Mark Pauline posing (note his surgically reconstructed hand formed out of several toes after he blew his fingers off):
http://student.santarosa.edu/~kdlugoke/junk_work1_2/mark-pauline.jpg

Stelarc doing some kewl stuff with science:
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/third/third.jpg

Archaeology - Ah, what's he called. The guy who did Time Team and was Baldrick on Blackadder. He's a scientific hero. Sure he is.

What's his name again?

Archaeology - Ah, what's he called. The guy who did Time Team and was Baldrick on Blackadder. He's a scientific hero. Sure he is.

What's his name again?

Tony Robinson?

wow .. all of those guys are pretty nifty, especially Kevin Warwick ..

Anyone that will get cybernetics put into himself gains points with me :P

Tony Robinson?

I met him last summer.

w00t.

the inventor of the string theory or Steven Hawkins. That man makes Einstein's IQ seem normal

Come on... Nancy McWilliams! I am pretty sure she's the only woman mentioned so far... which means you would stand a fair chance of having the only paper on a female scientific hero. That should score some points.

http://www.nancymcwilliams.com/

Come on... Nancy McWilliams! I am pretty sure she's the only woman mentioned so far... which means you would stand a fair chance of having the only paper on a female scientific hero. That should score some points.

Oke doke, I'll search her name and check it out :)

Bumpedy !