• Question: Who is your biggest role-model?

    Asked by India is da bestest to Fran, Peppe, Greg, Petros, Pooja on 15 Nov 2017.
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      Greg Chance answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      Probably Einstein. When I was taught how he looked at the world and what he discovered it blew my mind. Even today we are only just proving theories that he came up with 100 years ago and had no idea if they ever would be proven right. Simply amazing.

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      Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 16 Nov 2017:

      My biggest role-model is not that well known. I consider Robin Milner (who sadly died in 2010) the smartest person I have ever met. He was a pioneer of computer science, came up with so many theoretical and practical ideas that today are the foundations of many systems that we use. My entire work would not have been possible if it weren’t for his inventions. He received a Turing Award (like a Nobel prize but for computer science) and was Professor, but didn’t have a PhD! I met him when he was over 70 years old, but he could still outsmart anyone in a room full of computer scientists! Despite his status, he was very approachable and fun to talk to and willing to answer every question of every student and talk to us personally. That’s why he is my biggest role model!

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      Fran Zuch answered on 16 Nov 2017:

      I am not sure, I very much like the people who try to make Science interesting and exciting and accessible to everyone, so Carl Sagan, Brian Cox and especially Neil Degrasse Tyson.
      I am also super impressed by Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Vera Reuben who both done great contributions to science in the last century and helped our understanding of the universe.

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      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 21 Nov 2017:

      I person I always wanted to be is Leonardo Da Vinci. It might sound a bit of a pompous choice, but what I appreciated of him is that he was an engineer, scientist and artist and I try as much as possible to switch across topics and learn from different things, following his example. He was a man of several centuries ago, and it is probably not possible today to aspire to such a busy and variate job as his, but the fact that a person can design a primitive working plane, engineer war tactics to make an opponent town capitulate, write plays and implement special effects and explore the human anatomy all at the same time give me hope that it is possible to have different interests and be good at all of them

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