• Question: who is the most influential scientist to your work/ who is your favorite?

    Asked by coolguy to Kylie, Matt, Bex, RobB, Sam on 13 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by Honey :).
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      Matt Dunn answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      My work is mostly related to the brain and brain diseases, so I’d have to say the most influential (and my favourite) is the Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who made incredible discoveries about the structure of the brain around the 1890s!

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      Rebecca Thompson answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      My favourite scientist is called Sjors Scheres. He writes computer program that help us to process the data that we collect using electron microscopes. The programs he writes are super clever, and help us to make 3D models of what proteins look like in amazing detail, where we can see where every building block of the protein complex goes. This can tell us lots about how different protein machines works. He’s a really successful scientist that publishes lots of papers with exciting science, but he is also really nice and helpful!

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      Rob Brass answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      Probably Wilhelm Roentgen, known as the father of modern radiology. He went from discovering x-rays to taking the first medical x-ray image in just 2 weeks! You can still see the image of his wife’s hand if you google it! My job would be impossible, or at least a hell of a lot harder, without his work!

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      Kylie Belchamber answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      The most influential is Prof. Peter Barnes. He is the most highly referenced respiratory biologist in the world, and basically wrote the text book on asthma and COPD. When I was doing my PhD, I used to read his work a lot.
      Amazingly, when I applied for a job in his lab, I got it! So now he is my bosses boss, and I am still in awe at the way his brain works. We actually have a meeting room, which has all of his awards and certificates on the walls, and he has loads of them! If I can be like him one day, that would be amazing 🙂

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