Which Scientist Should Go On The New £50 Note?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/46069889
I'd Go with Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking would be my second choice.

[ToraToraTora]

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[ToraToraTora]

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[Mamyalynne]

Done.

[jackthehat]

John Harrison would also be a worthy contender.

[retrocop]

Thanks for the link TTT. 'The Goose that laid the Golden Egg' got my nomination.

[webbo3]

Paul Dirac.
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

[Togo]

Robert Grosseteste,Thomas Harriot, or William Kingdon Clifford.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I was thinking of Dirac webbo
only nobel prize winner from Bristol I think

so shy he used to write notes to his Father ....

isnt the Dirac function - one at a certain point and zero everywhere else? area under the f is zero ....

[webbo3]

Spot on Peter, lived not far from where I live.

[david small]

Sir Isaac Newton.

[retrocop]

Sorry david . He's already had a go.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-BANK-OF-ENGLAND-1-ONE-POUND-NOTE-SIR-ISAAC-NEWTON/312288884573?hash=item48b5de375d:g:AygAAOSwb-Rb2d7P:rk:3:pf:1&frcectupt=true

[youngmafbog]

Turing for me

[Theland]

Stephen C Meyer.

[jno]

maybe Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage together. I think they were massive game-changers in a way the other suggestions were not

[naomi24]

//Stephen C Meyer//

Give over, Theland. He's an American creationist nutter.

[Peter Pedant]

// maybe Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage together. I think they were massive game-changers in a way the other suggestions were not//

erm not borne out by history I am afraid - - but that is no reason not to honour them - didja catch the fella saying Adder Lovelace?

what shall we do with Mr Babbage and his calculating machine?
[Nothing it turned out - 1867 - that was a chancellor - Disraeli. Cost too much to make with everywheel different. Yes someone really did dig out Disraelis comment]

His son split the prototype and sent bits (pun intended) to the universities where it sat in museums untouched. von Neumann was near a section at Harvard hut there is no evidence he looked at it let alone say - "what ho Jeeves someone did this a hundred years ago!"

The point is jno to be five years ahead of your time - then you are a prophet and perhaps get to be very rich
being a hundred years ahead - and you are ridiculed as a freak

[Zacs-Master]

Crick n Watson?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Stephen C meyer !
American and alive are two bars to the honours - crazy diphead is not a bar as far as I know - nor is insane peddler of nonsense....
BUT if we did
we could go around saying - look look these notes are a worthless con!

yeah like having that policeman that ran away from the knifeman on the £50 note - so you can say - "now you see him now you dont" as you fold it and put it away !

[emmie]

if not Stephen Hawking, then definitely Alan Turing.

[Tilly2]

Alexander Fleming.