The latest series from the Royal Mail features famous scientists of the Royal society and celebrates the 350th anniversary of it's founding (1660) here they are in all their glory, see if you can recognise any of them.
Answers below:
Left to right: Robert Boyle, founder of modern chemistry; Sir Isaac Newton, physicist and optical pioneer; Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lightning conductor; Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination; Charles Babbage, developer of programmable computers; Alfred Russel Wallace, pioneer of evolution theory; Joseph Lister, inventor of antiseptic surgery; Ernest Rutherford, founding father of nuclear physics; Dorothy Hodgkin, inventor of x-ray crystallography; Sir Nicholas Shackleton, pioneer of climate research.
4 comments:
Dorothy Hodgkin - Nobel laureate, and as founder of the study of protein crystallography she helped lay the foundations for a whole new field - Molecular Biophysics - and on into the world of computer-aided drug design.
Most vaguely scientifically-literate people in this country have heard of Marie Curie, yet so few have heard of Hodgkin.
Hi G, I know what you mean, I once took an American visitor to Westminster Abbey, he was amazed to see Isaac Newton's grave, he hadn't realised that he was a "real" person.
Tsk.... I dunno :)
You were standing in a building at the time that was five times as old as his nation. He was bound to be confused.
G, :)
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