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Old 6th Nov 2018, 6:50 pm   #1
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Default Which Scientist on the new £50 Note? (Alan Turing).

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I've gone with Turing.

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Well Maxwell here. I was going to suggest Michael Faraday but he apparently has already appeared on a note.
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I would also go with James Clerk Maxwell
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Lovelace.

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Heinz Wolff!
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Default Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?

Magnus Pyke!

Or, of relevance to this forum, Sir Oliver Lodge (who came up with the idea of tuning radio-frequency circuits - "Syntony" as he described it).
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Alan Blumlein. John.
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Old 6th Nov 2018, 8:07 pm   #9
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Default Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?

I assume they have to be British, though this is not stated.

Anyway, I think I would also go for James Clerk Maxwell.

By the way, the following have already appeared on notes:
Isaac Newton (£1)
George Stephenson (£5)
Charles Darwin (£10)
Michael Faraday (£20)
Matthew Boulton and James Watt (£50).
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Old 6th Nov 2018, 8:11 pm   #11
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It is rumoured that a lady ought to appear, so Rosalind Franklin would be the obvious choice. She did all the hard work for determining the structure of DNA, but her boss received the Nobel prize.
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Old 6th Nov 2018, 8:19 pm   #12
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It is rumoured that a lady ought to appear.
So that would bump the aforementioned Ada Lovelace up the list.
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Default Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?

I would imagine Stephen Hawking would be a shoe in, though no doubt there would be complaints from the identity politics people, who would claim that Ada Lovelace was a much more important scientist.
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Bottom line there are many worthy folks who should be chosen but of course only one can be the face.

Yes and we had Marconi a bit back on the £2 coin.
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Default Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?

If they were to take a lot of notice of the public's views, it could be an 'outsider'. They were interviewing some young lad on TV about it; he reckoned that Alexander Fleming was the man. Of course, it's now accepted that others played a much greater role in penicillin, but myths often persist, perhaps due in part to uniformed primary school teachers.

Among female candidates, Rosalind Franklin would have to be a good possibility.

Robert Hook is one of my favourites; a very great "practical scientist", who built equipment for many others including Boyle. Interesting "domestic life". It's been said that Isaac Newton hated him so much that after Hook's death, Newton had all portraits of him destroyed.

Willing to take bets that it will not be Maxwell!

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Sir Humphrey Davy.
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Caroline Herschel or Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
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I assume they have to be British, though this is not stated.

Anyway, I think I would also go for James Clerk Maxwell.

By the way, the following have already appeared on notes:
Isaac Newton (£1)
George Stephenson (£5)
Charles Darwin (£10)
Michael Faraday (£20)
Matthew Boulton and James Watt (£50).
I'd argue that George stephenson and Boulton and Watt were engineers rather than scientists, i know it's a bit pedantic.

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Old 7th Nov 2018, 1:00 am   #19
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John Dalton, not just for having colour blindness named after him, but also his work leading to the periodic table of elements.
And a Cumbrian to boot.
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I've just voted for James Clerk Maxwell. One of the great scientific minds of the 19th century.
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