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Walt Zingmatilder

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Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« on: November 02, 2018, 09:41:34 AM »
Stephen Hawking.

I think Thatcher might qualify for her work on mixtures.

Dawkins? Might have spent too much time in popular science.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2018, 10:05:15 AM »
Fucking Thatcher? Fuck the fuck off!
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2018, 10:11:45 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on November 02, 2018, 10:05:15 AM
Fucking Thatcher? Fuck the fuck off!
Apparently there was a failed Gammon crusade to have Thatcher on the £50 pound note but support for her was less than a unicorn to be on there.
Then to avoid another boatyard mcboatface (a comedy vote dry run for Brexit) they chose scientists to be the theme.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2018, 10:20:24 AM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on November 02, 2018, 09:41:34 AM
Dawkins? Might have spent too much time in popular science.

He's disqualified by being alive. Apparently only dead people are allowed: Think science for the new £50 note.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2018, 10:23:42 AM »
Quote from: Stranger on November 02, 2018, 10:20:24 AM
He's disqualified by being alive. Apparently only dead people are allowed: Think science for the new £50 note.
So we are to be deprived of a depiction of his wonderful hair......mind you Einsteins would have been harder to Forge.

Newton had wonderful hair but that might have been a wig.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2018, 10:36:31 AM »
It'll probably be Hawking, he having recently handed in his dinner-pail, but other candidates might be:
Alexander Fleming;
Isaac Newton;
Robert Boyle;
Rosalind Franklin;
Ada Lovelace;
Charles Babbage;
Beatrix Potter.*

*She came up in a list of female British scientists. Apparently, her work in mycology was highly respected.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2018, 10:40:19 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on November 02, 2018, 10:36:31 AM
It'll probably be Hawking, he having recently handed in his dinner-pail, but other candidates might be:
Alexander Fleming;
Isaac Newton;
Robert Boyle;
Rosalind Franklin;
Ada Lovelace;
Charles Babbage;
Beatrix Potter.*

*She came up in a list of female British scientists. Apparently, her work in mycology was highly respected.
Yes when asked about her love for mycology she said it was a fungi to be with.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2018, 10:43:42 AM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on November 02, 2018, 10:40:19 AM
Yes when asked about her love for mycology she said it was a fungi to be with.
But it didn't leave mushroom in her diary for other activities.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2018, 10:49:51 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on November 02, 2018, 10:43:42 AM
But ut didn't leave mushroom in her diary for other activities.
Apparently she was named for her mother who could Balance a pint of stout on the back of one hand, a pint of bitter on the other and a pint of lager on her head all at the same time.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2018, 10:52:55 AM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on November 02, 2018, 10:49:51 AM
Apparently she was named for her mother who could Balance a pint of stout on the back of one hand, a pint of bitter on the other and a pint of lager on her head all at the same time.
Hop it with your terrible puns!
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2018, 10:55:28 AM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on November 02, 2018, 10:49:51 AM
Apparently she was named for her mother who could Balance a pint of stout on the back of one hand, a pint of bitter on the other and a pint of lager on her head all at the same time.
While Morris-dancing and farting La Marseillaise?
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2018, 11:09:59 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on November 02, 2018, 10:36:31 AM
It'll probably be Hawking, he having recently handed in his dinner-pail, but other candidates might be:
Alexander Fleming;
Isaac Newton;
Robert Boyle;
Rosalind Franklin;
Ada Lovelace;
Charles Babbage;
Beatrix Potter.*

*She came up in a list of female British scientists. Apparently, her work in mycology was highly respected.

Alan Turing
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2018, 11:11:43 AM »
Didn't we have Charles Babbage on something already? Years ago*.

I'd go for Alan Turing.

*No, a 22p postage stamp 1991. Dunno why I remembered that.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2018, 11:47:33 AM »
Quote from: Robbie on November 02, 2018, 11:11:43 AM
Didn't we have Charles Babbage on something already? Years ago*.

I'd go for Alan Turing.

*No, a 22p postage stamp 1991. Dunno why I remembered that.

I think Turing might make some people uncomfortable with our past and how we treated people. It does me. And that's no bad thing, especially with the return of right wing values.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2018, 11:54:50 AM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on November 02, 2018, 09:41:34 AM
Stephen Hawking.

I think Thatcher might qualify for her work on mixtures.

Dawkins? Might have spent too much time in popular science.

I think Stephen Hawking is too recent. Margaret Thatcher isn't known as a scientist and Richard Dawkins is still alive.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2018, 11:56:36 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on November 02, 2018, 10:36:31 AM
It'll probably be Hawking, he having recently handed in his dinner-pail, but other candidates might be:
Alexander Fleming;
Isaac Newton;
Robert Boyle;
Rosalind Franklin;
Ada Lovelace;
Charles Babbage;
Beatrix Potter.*

*She came up in a list of female British scientists. Apparently, her work in mycology was highly respected.
Isaac Newton was on the last £1 note.

I thought about Rosalind Franklin, but if her, why not Francis Crick?
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2018, 12:04:40 PM »
Lovelace for me. I might have suggested Mary Somerville, but as she is on the RBS tenner, doesn't seem correct to be on two current UK notes.


In addition for consideration James Clerk Maxwell.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2018, 03:17:46 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2018, 12:04:40 PM
Lovelace for me. I might have suggested Mary Somerville,

In addition for consideration James Clerk Maxwell.
Is that Ada or Linda?
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2018, 03:55:00 PM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on November 02, 2018, 03:17:46 PM
Is that Ada or Linda?
Linda Lovelace was not a scientist.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2018, 10:09:10 AM »
James Clarke-Maxwwell, yes, bhut he was more of a mathematician, wasn't he, even though he was way ahead of his time, creating equations or something which turned out to be just what was needed for quantum mechanics.

James Glaisher would be a good candidate for me at the moment - 'The Weather Experiment' by Peter Moor, he is one of the main characters in the search for an understanding of the weather and  and analysis of it. He discovered what dew is and its dew point amongst his other prolific work and reports etc.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2018, 11:08:21 AM »
Quote from: SusanDoris on November 03, 2018, 10:09:10 AM
James Clarke-Maxwwell, yes, bhut he was more of a mathematician, wasn't he, even though he was way ahead of his time, creating equations or something which turned out to be just what was needed for quantum mechanics.

He produced the (rather beautiful) classical theory of electromagnetism which predicted electromagnetic waves with a speed that was remarkably similar to the (already known) speed of light, and hence discovered the nature of light and predicted radio waves. The fact that the speed of light was a constant, was used by Einstein in the development of Special Relativity.

Having said all that, I'm inclined towards Alan Turing (who was a mathematician) for the reasons Rhiannon gave in #13.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #22 on: November 03, 2018, 11:51:12 AM »
Stephen Hawking gets my vote.
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #23 on: November 03, 2018, 12:13:30 PM »
Quote from: SusanDoris on November 03, 2018, 10:09:10 AM
James Clarke-Maxwwell, yes, bhut he was more of a mathematician, wasn't he, even though he was way ahead of his time, creating equations or something which turned out to be just what was needed for quantum mechanics.

James Glaisher would be a good candidate for me at the moment - 'The Weather Experiment' by Peter Moor, he is one of the main characters in the search for an understanding of the weather and  and analysis of it. He discovered what dew is and its dew point amongst his other prolific work and reports etc.
I read a most interesting biography of him a while back and it was one of those books where it is such a pity to come to the end.
If there was such a thing as an after-life, I'd seek him out and tell him how much I admire his life and work!
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Re: Finalists for the £50 note portrait must be scientists
« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2018, 02:38:13 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on November 02, 2018, 11:56:36 AM
Isaac Newton was on the last £1 note.

I thought about Rosalind Franklin, but if her, why not Francis Crick?
       


Fleming was a (very) distant rellie of mine. Howver, he may have isolated peniccilin; he did not discover it.
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