Home Mobile version About spiked What is spiked? Support spiked spiked shop Contact us Advertising Summer school Top issues Abortion Arab uprisings British politics Economy Environment For Europe, Against the EU Free speech Nudge Obesity Obituaries Occupy protests Parents and kids Population The Stephen Lawrence case USA View all issues...  Letters  Review of Books  Monthly archive selected authors Duleep Allirajah Daniel Ben-Ami Tim Black Jennie Bristow Sean Collins Dr Michael Fitzpatrick Frank Furedi Helene Guldberg Patrick Hayes Mick Hume Rob Lyons Brendan O’Neill Nathalie Rothschild James Woudhuysen more authors... RSS feed		survey abc | def | ghi | jkl | mno | pqrs | tuv | wxyz | index Survey home Introduction Survey responses RSS feed Anjana Ahuja Julian Baggini Philip Ball Marlene Oscar Berman Gustav VR Born K Eric Drexler Marcus Du Sautoy Edmond H Fischer John Hall Tim Hunt Wolfgang Ketterle Leon Lederman Matt Ridley Raymond Tallis Frank Wilczek Lewis Wolpert Professor Nils-Axel Mörner professor of paleogeophysics and geodynamics at Stockholm University When Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 put the Sun in the centre, a depressing ‘ruling model’ was killed after 1800 years, and science, thinking and innovation exploded. Ken MacLeod science fiction author The greatest innovation in my field was the infodump, otherwise known as the expository lump... Professor Peter Maitlis emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Sheffield The development of techniques for the structural elucidation of molecules, such as NMR, X-ray crystallography, neutron diffraction, etc. Professor Benoit Mandelbrot Battelle fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In the case of fractal geometry, the greatest innovation occurred when my lifetime work extended the scope of quantitative science to include roughness. Dr Robert Matthews visiting reader in science, Aston University, Birmingham The development of Bayesian statistical inference over the last 200 years. Dr Jorge E Mayer MIP TM attorney, manager Golden Rice Project The development of the capability to introduce genes into plants across the species barrier. Kevin McCullagh director of the product strategy consultancy Plan The mobile phone passed from executive status symbol to teenage fashion item to an economic enabler in the developing world within the span of 20 years. Dr Christopher P McKay planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Centre. The rocket has taken humans to the Moon and some day it will take us to Mars. Professor John McKean professor of architecture, University of Brighton The domestication of dairy and meat animals through their slow genetic selection and similarly the development of agricultural staples through breeding and systems of artificial irrigation. This allowed architecture and thus urban as well as non-urban, sedentary life. Dr Patrick E McSharry Royal Academy of Engineering research fellow at the University of Oxford The computer enables scientists to undertake predictive, integrative systems-based modelling that has the potential to provide a better understanding of health and disease. Chris Meade director, Booktrust Bookstart, established 1992, the amazing books for babies scheme which stimulates parental bonding and a love of books. Neil Mellor business development director, BT plc The single most empowering innovation in my immediate field of work is probably the humble PC spreadsheet. Dr James W Mold Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Imaging techniques like ultrasound, CT, and MRI. Vivian Moses emeritus professor of microbiology at Queen Mary College The realisation that the Earth is a sphere. For perhaps the first time in history, people accepted, on the basis of evidence, the reality of something clearly counter-intuitive. Professor Arno Mullbacher leader, molecular immunology and virology, Australian National University An orthopoxvirus, variola major, gave rise to immunology. Somewhere in Asia centuries ago someone must have made an extraordinary intellectual leap. Jeremy Myerson director, InnovationRCA Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro's invention of the first ballpoint pen in 1938 and British engineer George Carwardine's design of the first Anglepoise lamp five years earlier. Dr Iain Nicholson writer and lecturer in the fields of astronomy and space science. The spectroscope transformed astronomy from the rather dry study of positions and brightness into astrophysics - the investigation of the physical nature and evolution of planets, stars, gas clouds and galaxies - and led directly to the discovery that the entire universe is expanding. Dr John Oyston Chief of anaesthesiology at The Scarborough Hospital, Ontario, Canada In anaesthesiology, the pulse oximeter and the end-tide CO2 monitor.
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