• Question: who is your favourite scentist

    Asked by wych442dab on 23 Nov 2021.
    • Photo: Craig Anderson

      Craig Anderson answered on 23 Nov 2021:

      Eske Willerslev who led the effort to sequence the genome of a neanderthal.

      He was coming to the UK to present at a meeting and I offered to drive him from the airport in London to the meeting in Cardiff. That sounds boring, but I got to spend 5 hours with my idol!!

      I would do it again in a heartbeat.

    • Photo: Rafael Galupa

      Rafael Galupa answered on 25 Nov 2021:

      My favourite scientists are my former supervisor and some previous colleagues of mine, whom I used to work next to, have now moved on to lead their own laboratories. Thinking about ‘famous’ scientists, I have always had a scientific ‘crush’ on Marie Sklodowska-Curie 🙂

    • Photo: Julia Spindel

      Julia Spindel answered on 26 Nov 2021:

      I am very interested in conservation, so Jane Goodall is a favourite of mine. Closer to my field, Madeline Lancaster is doing very cool work (growing mini brains in petri dishes!) and Edith Heard (Director General of EMBL) is probably the most inspiring to me within my field. As a female scientist, I find it very important to have role models who are not all white men… 🙂

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