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Which Scientist on the new £50 Note? (Alan Turing).
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You have the option to give your reasoning in no more that 250 characters. I've gone with Turing. B
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
Well Maxwell here. I was going to suggest Michael Faraday but he apparently has already appeared on a note.
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
Bernard Lovell
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6th Nov 2018, 7:13 pm | #4 |
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
I would also go with James Clerk Maxwell
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6th Nov 2018, 7:16 pm | #5 |
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
Lovelace.
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6th Nov 2018, 7:31 pm | #6 |
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Heinz Wolff!
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6th Nov 2018, 7:33 pm | #7 |
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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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6th Nov 2018, 8:07 pm | #9 |
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
Maxwell for me.
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6th Nov 2018, 8:10 pm | #10 |
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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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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
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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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
So that would bump the aforementioned Ada Lovelace up the list.
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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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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! B
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Sir Humphrey Davy.
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
Caroline Herschel or Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
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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.
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Re: Which Scientist on the new £50 Note?
I've just voted for James Clerk Maxwell. One of the great scientific minds of the 19th century.
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