| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? 12:17 - Nov 2 with 4620 views | BrynCartwright |
So the Bank of England want public nominations for a scientist to adorn the new plastic £50 note.
Enter your nominations here:-
https://app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/1348443/10fc/
I went for Stephen Hawking. Bit obvious but at least relevant. They will probably select some petticoated Victorian lass I've never heard of because of gender imbalance. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:21 - Nov 2 with 3281 views | Dr_Winston |
Heinz Wolff. Not British. Don't care. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:28 - Nov 2 with 3268 views | omarjack |
Neil deGrasse Tyson (when Brexit collapses/ UK adapts the Euro and the ultra-nationalist project collapses)
That'll trigger many. [Post edited 2 Nov 2018 12:29]
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:49 - Nov 2 with 3239 views | Mo_Wives |
I'll go for Hawking...but I want this image...
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:49 - Nov 2 with 3238 views | Mo_Wives |
Or this...
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:50 - Nov 2 with 3236 views | Mo_Wives |
Even this...
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:50 - Nov 2 with 3235 views | londonlisa2001 |
Rosalind Franklin.
It will be Stephen Hawking though. As soon as it is a public vote, he’s one of the few scientists many people will have heard of, despite most of them having no clue what he actually did other than from seeing the film.
Alan Turing would also be a good choice. | | | |
| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 12:52 - Nov 2 with 3221 views | Highjack |
Charles Babbage? | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 13:25 - Nov 2 with 3183 views | jackportis |
I for sure think that we should celebrate our first Muslim note. Muhammad al-idrisi for example. This for sure would promote further our recognition of our proud diverse culture. If nominated I would challenge the Bank of England why they are declining! | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 13:30 - Nov 2 with 3173 views | londonlisa2001 |
They would decline presumably on grounds of not meeting one of the three specified criteria. | | | |
| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 13:52 - Nov 2 with 3152 views | Highjack |
I know he’s not dead yet but we should honour professor brian cox for his services to keyboarding for D-Ream and playing Hannibal Lecter so well in Manhunt. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 13:56 - Nov 2 with 3142 views | Mo_Wives |
What about Gaz Top or his mate Fred? They were always doing science. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 13:57 - Nov 2 with 3140 views | Humpty |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 14:00 - Nov 2 with 3138 views | Mo_Wives |
ECB?
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 14:03 - Nov 2 with 3132 views | Highjack |
“We are men of science”
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 16:03 - Nov 2 with 3089 views | monmouth |
Only one contender. Got to have pussy with a £50 note
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 16:16 - Nov 2 with 3076 views | AustinIsOurHero |
Serious nominations probably won't go far beyond Hawking or Patrick Moor (wasn't Astrology one of the criteria?).
Wouldn't be surprised to see Boaty McBoat Face get a few nominations too. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 17:12 - Nov 2 with 3042 views | yescomeon |
Has to be Newton. But Hawkins is surely a contender. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 17:14 - Nov 2 with 3040 views | Professor |
I nominated Franklin along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.Revisionism in science has rather venerated Rosalind Franklin as a great female hero at the expense of Wilkins in particular. Sadly, her untimely death meant we never really knew if she was a great scientist or not. She was certainly a skilled crystallographer but the management of the MRC unit by John Randall was poor which meant Franklin thought she was an independent scientist and Wilkins that she was part of his research team. Thankfully the dreadful racist and misogynist James Watson is both alive and American so won't join the others.
The elucidation of the structure of DNA and the triplet codon was the biggest advance of the 20th century in biology made between Cambridge and KCL and should be recognised. I am somewhat biased as Maurice Wilkins taught me in the 1980s.
Alan Turing would be my second choice | | | |
| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 17:24 - Nov 2 with 3036 views | Lohengrin |
What about Alfred Russel Wallace? Handy bloody Neath boy you are!  | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 17:31 - Nov 2 with 3020 views | Highjack |
Astrology is definitely a real science, it’s a shame Mystic Meg isn’t dead yet as she’d be a shoe in for the 50 quid gig. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 17:35 - Nov 2 with 3019 views | Lohengrin |
What about Kelly le Brock? She was Science to most boys in the ‘80s, even if she does look a bit ‘Weird’ now...
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 17:41 - Nov 2 with 3012 views | Highjack |
My nomination goes towards James Watt and Matthew Boulton who were pivotal in the advancement of steam technology. | |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 18:56 - Nov 2 with 2964 views | theloneranger |
In no particular order ...
Timothy John Berners-Lee
Alexander Fleming
Rosalind Franklin | |
| Everyday above ground ... Is a good day! 😎 |
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| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 19:29 - Nov 2 with 2947 views | LeonWasGod |
Wallace. He was better than Gromit and did something about species and evolution. He'd have loved pikey. | | | |
| Your scientist nomination for new £50 note...? on 19:50 - Nov 2 with 2932 views | Gowerjack |
Alan Turing.
Obviously. | |
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