Showing posts with label scientists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scientists. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The Great Tradition Of Bungling Boffins

Galileo wasn't immune to the odd bad idea himself. Simon Callow in the television production of Galileo's Daughter Photo: CHANNEL 4

From The Telegraph:

As recent events have shown, all scientists can make mistakes. Michael Brooks recounts their most heroic failures across the ages.

It is hardly surprising that public confidence in science has taken a dip lately, what with all the turmoil surrounding climate change research, the failure of the peer review process to block Andrew Wakefield's paper on MMR, and the near-comical troubles at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Marie Curie Voted Greatest Female Scientist

Marie Curie has been voted the greatest woman scientist of all time. Photo: PA

From The Telegraph:

Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist has been voted the greatest woman scientist of all time.

The Polish-born researcher, who discovered radiation therapy could treat cancer, won just over a quarter of the poll (25.1 per cent) - almost twice as much as her nearest rival Rosalind Franklin (14.2 per cent), the English biophysicist who helped discover the structure of DNA.

Only two modern role models made the top ten - astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell came fourth (4.7 per cent) and Dr Jane Goodall, the world famous primatologist, was tenth (2.7 per cent).

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Top 5 Mad Scientists of All Time

From Popular Mechanics:

For millennia, legions of mad scientists have toiled in underground laboratories, trespassed on the territory of the gods and cackled madly into the night. This book honors the greatest mentally unstable geniuses of history in true mad science fashion—using the tenets of forensic psychology to mentally autopsy these savants. Beginning with child development and proceeding through adolescence and higher education, we will deconstruct the how and why of their abominable plans and heartless transgressions against man and nature. This is what happens when you coax a mad scientist out of his laboratory and onto the psychologist's couch. Put on your latex gloves, snap on a pair of goggles, and dig out a lab coat that isn't covered in bloodstains, because we're about to walk the corridors of ... The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame.

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Special Note: 3 of the 5 are fictional.