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Robinanna neibauer — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:20:18 -0000

Nikola Tesla or Rosalind Franklin!

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Daro — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:06:48 -0000

Mikolaj Kopernik

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G. Lee Wall — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:16:50 -0000

Richard Feynman

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angry_larry — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:35:00 -0000

First scientist to my mind; Louis Pasteur - organic chemist/microbiologist
"Famous" scientists (who are also women) not mentioned so far: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Jane Goodall
An organic chemist: Carolyn Bertozzi/UC Berkeley
A microbiologist: Eva Harris/UC Berkeley

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profvrr — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:32:23 -0000

It's a good question. I can tell you what fraction of virology blog
readers can do so, when I compile the results.

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Name — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:58:52 -0000

Sylvia Earl. Eugenie Clark. Ada Lovelace. Rita Colwell. Nancy Chang. Diane Fossey. Marie Curie. Rosalind Franklin. Gertrude Elion. Rita Levi-Montalcini.

I wonder how much of the general population can name a female scientist?

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Name — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:52:49 -0000

Darwin, of course.

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ducker — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:03:40 -0000

Sylvia Earle, Jane Lubchenko

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אריאל גלולה — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:23:23 -0000

Dimitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky the Russian biologist who was the first to discover viruses.

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Andrew — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:26:42 -0000

I would say Vincent Racaniello, because I just read this, and it's right there--and there's no discounting that fact. Then I probably would have said Mendel.

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jason Halperin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:45:27 -0000

Paul Farmer

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Pat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:36:32 -0000

John Wheeler. (I'm an astrophysicist.)

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gera hasse — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:46:11 -0000

Stephen Hawking leaps to mind.

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Ilse — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:12:55 -0000

Newton was the first one who came to mind, then Galilei.

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Swede — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:09:37 -0000

Too many to choose from! However, considering these pandemic times and that the most common advice from Health Officials to the General Public is "Wash your hands frequently", I can not help thinking about;

Ignaz Semmelweis

A simple advice that has saved a whole lot of lives since the 1840s.

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melissa — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:19:30 -0000

James Watson!

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dottholliday — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:45:29 -0000

Enrico Fermi
Richard Feyman

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Wilijon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:58:14 -0000

Isn't 23% about the same percentage that thought G W hung the moon?

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Janice Numtwabe — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:23:50 -0000

Or Einstein

- Janice,
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Janice Numtwabe — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:23:05 -0000

Stephen Hawking

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C Day — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:41 -0000

Barbara McClintock.

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Kate — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:25:23 -0000

Linus Pauling

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Melkarion — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:22:45 -0000

Nikola Tesla. The classic mad scientist.

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David Loria — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:08:54 -0000

Clodomiro Picado Twight, a Costa Rican scientist. He was pioneer in the researching snakes and serpent venoms; his internationally recognized achievement was the development of various anti-venom serums. He was one of the precursors of the discovery of penicillin, which he used to treat patients a couple of years before the formal discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming.[1] He wrote over 115 works, mainly books and monographs.