I think I’d like to talk to Charles Darwin, because I’m interested in animal evolution just like he was. I’d also like to talk to Alfred Wallace – he came up with the idea of evolution at the same time as Charles Darwin, but he often doesn’t receive equal credit for it.
I’d talk with Leonardo da Vinci. I’d like to know how he was able to come up with so many crazy ideas. In chemistry (my subject) I’d like to talk to a French guy called Antoine Lavoisier. He lived a while ago, and was the person who came up with the idea that if we want to do chemistry we need to weigh things accurately. A really simple thing that made a huge difference. He did a lot of experiments with his wife. Here’s a picture of me in front of the portrait of him that’s in New York: http://twitpic.com/5bvxsu – so I could talk at him, not with him, sadly.
Two great answers from Mat and Bridget. I would join in that dinner party with Da Vinci and Darwin.
Another scientist I’d love to talk to (which is actually possible, he is alive!) is Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. He has an amazing career teaching people about science and he knows so much about so many things. He has several degrees, has written heaps of books and seems really fun and friendly and clever.
I would pick Julius Sumner Miller. He was the first scientist I ever knew of without really knowing what a scientist was. He appeared on my TV doing wonderful demonstrations and explained how everything worked while having fun. And he also appeared on Cadbury chocolate ads.
Go look him up on Youtube. There’s a few videos around. On second thoughts, don’t. You might get an idea of how old I am!
This is a hard one. talk with only one scientist … it would be tempting to talk science with a great scientist, but if you wanted to have a great dinner conversation with a great scientist, then I’d pick someone who was also interested in other things. For example, Richard Feynman, not only won the Nobel Prize in physics, he worked on the atomic bomb, was one of the panel which investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, played the bongo drums, and so on.
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I think I’d like to talk to Charles Darwin, because I’m interested in animal evolution just like he was. I’d also like to talk to Alfred Wallace – he came up with the idea of evolution at the same time as Charles Darwin, but he often doesn’t receive equal credit for it.
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I’d talk with Leonardo da Vinci. I’d like to know how he was able to come up with so many crazy ideas. In chemistry (my subject) I’d like to talk to a French guy called Antoine Lavoisier. He lived a while ago, and was the person who came up with the idea that if we want to do chemistry we need to weigh things accurately. A really simple thing that made a huge difference. He did a lot of experiments with his wife. Here’s a picture of me in front of the portrait of him that’s in New York: http://twitpic.com/5bvxsu – so I could talk at him, not with him, sadly.
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Two great answers from Mat and Bridget. I would join in that dinner party with Da Vinci and Darwin.
Another scientist I’d love to talk to (which is actually possible, he is alive!) is Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. He has an amazing career teaching people about science and he knows so much about so many things. He has several degrees, has written heaps of books and seems really fun and friendly and clever.
Look him up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kruszelnicki
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Any scientist?
I would pick Julius Sumner Miller. He was the first scientist I ever knew of without really knowing what a scientist was. He appeared on my TV doing wonderful demonstrations and explained how everything worked while having fun. And he also appeared on Cadbury chocolate ads.
Go look him up on Youtube. There’s a few videos around. On second thoughts, don’t. You might get an idea of how old I am!
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This is a hard one. talk with only one scientist … it would be tempting to talk science with a great scientist, but if you wanted to have a great dinner conversation with a great scientist, then I’d pick someone who was also interested in other things. For example, Richard Feynman, not only won the Nobel Prize in physics, he worked on the atomic bomb, was one of the panel which investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, played the bongo drums, and so on.
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