if you could be a famous scientist who would you be?

Question: if you could be a famous scientist who would you be?
- Keywords:
  career,
  famous,
  inspiration
Asked by 653bdta32 to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 17 Nov 2014.
- Jodi Schneider answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  Jane Goodall:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
  
  She’s famous for studying primates in Africa — while I’d read about early women scientists (like astronomer Maria Mitchell , the first American woman to be a professional astronomer), she was the first female scientist whose book I’d read. She sounded so fearless and so compassionate! She named chimpanzees and lived with them.
  
  My work is about studying online groups. They’re not chimpanzees — but I still take Jane Goodall’s approach of really immersing myself in the groups I study, to see our world from inside them.
  
  Great question!
- George Ryall answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  I think Paul Dirac Richard Feynman both lead interesting lives.
- Anna Scaife answered on 18 Nov 2014:
  
  Difficult… maybe Ada Lovelace – she was a mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer.
  
  Otherwise, perhaps Ernest Rutherford. He contributed to and lived through very exciting times in the history of physics!
- Stefan Lines answered on 18 Nov 2014:
  
  Feynman because he had a good sense of humour.

Question: if you could be a famous scientist who would you be?