• Question: are you related to any famous scientists?

    Asked by wallace to Daniel, Derek, Ian, Phil, Upul on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Derek Mann

      Derek Mann answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      No, I am the first scientist in my family.

    • Photo: Daniel Mietchen

      Daniel Mietchen answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Genetically not, though in spirit, I feel like a descendant of many scientists from Pythagoras and Euclid to Galileo and Mersenne to Darwin and Helmholtz to Einstein and Curie. Or, as Newton put it, scientists are “standing on the shoulders of giants“.

    • Photo: Ian Sillett

      Ian Sillett answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Not that I know of, but I guess we’re all related to a common ancestor if we go back far enough!

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