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RSS feed		survey abc | def | ghi | jkl | mno | pqrs | tuv | wxyz | index Survey home First thoughts Final thoughts Survey responses RSS feed Michael Baum Gustav Born K Eric Drexler Marcus du Sautoy Harold Kroto Paul Lauterbur Leon Lederman Bernard Lovell Sophie Petit-Zeman Ingo Potrykus Jack Pridham Simon Singh Jack Steinberger Paul Parsons editor of BBC Focus magazine, and managing editor of BBC Sky at Night magazine Good science communication Josef Penninger scientific director and senior scientist at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology A great mentor and teacher David Perks head of physics at Graveney School in London, and deviser of the Debating Matters sixth-form debating competition I was treated by my tutors as if I could make sense of everything they knew about physics Dr Sophie Petit-Zeman writer on health, science and social care Falling in love with my biology teacher when I was 13 Dr Clifford A Pickover inventor and science writer My desire to learn how the world works, and my passion for science fiction Ingo Potrykus chair of the Humanitarian Golden Rice Board and Network, emeritus professor of plant sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and creator of Golden Rice The phenomenon of totipotency of plant cells Channapatna S Prakash president of the AgBioWorld Foundation, professor of agricultural and environmental sciences and plant molecular genetics at Tuskegee University, director of the Centre for Plant Biotechnology Research I was mentored by a fascinating professor in plant breeding Dr Daniel Price researcher in astrophysics at the University of Exeter A family friend who was a lecturer in astronomy, and who always encouraged my interest Jack Pridham editor of Chemo-Philia, and emeritus professor of biochemistry at Royal Holloway, University of London As a child I was free to pursue scientific activities – some of which, today, would attract the attention of antiterrorist officers Peter H Raven Engelmann professor of Botany at Washington University in St Louis, and director of the Missouri Botanical Garden Curiosity about nature Leslie Rose founder of Pharmavision Consulting, and consultant clinical scientist I inspired myself Vadim S Rotenberg senior lecturer in psychiatry at Tel Aviv University A very good, broad-minded teacher Carlo Rovelli professor of physics at the University of the Méditérranée in Marseille, and member of the Quantum Gravity Group The desire to look at the world with new eyes Daniel Sandford-Smith education manager at the Institute of Physics I really enjoyed physics at school Dr Eugenie C Scott executive director of the National Centre for Science Education My biology teacher Alom Shaha science communicator and educator, and TV producer Gifted teachers, whose enthusiasm for their subjects was relentless and infectious Hugh Sharman founder and principal of Incoteco Picking things up and looking at them Ben Shneiderman professor of computer science at the University of Maryland in College Park, founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and joint inventor of Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams The challenge of understanding a small part of our amazing world, with the goal of making life better for many Lee M Silver professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University A desire to understand how things work S Fred Singer founder and president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, distinguished research professor at George Mason University, and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia Luck Dr Simon Singh science writer and broadcaster Good science and mathematics teachers Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith director of the Culham Division at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, chair of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion, and former director general of CERN Great teachers and inspiring popularisations Julien Clinton Sprott professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison I carefully spread a hairpin apart and inserted it into an electrical socket Steven W Squyres Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, and co-investigator for the Mars Express mission and for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter I've always been intensely curious about why things are the way they are Jack Steinberger former researcher at CERN, and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on elementary particles and forces The Second World War John F Stein professor of physiology at the University of Oxford, head of the Sensorimotor Control Lab, and scientific adviser to Pro-Test How much we can learn about the human brain by studying the nervous systems of animals Victor J Stenger emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and president of Colorado Citizens for Science The atomic bomb
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