have you met any famous scientists ?

Question: have you met any famous scientists ?
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Asked by anon-223307 to Valerio, Sreejita, Sam, Kate, Anastasia, Adam on 19 Nov 2019.
- Kate Winfield answered on 19 Nov 2019:
  
  Unfortunately not 🙁 but we do have a cardboard version of Tim Peak at work!
- Sreejita Ghosh answered on 19 Nov 2019:
  
  No, not yet, not at a personal face to face talk. However I work at the University of Groningen where Prof. Ben Feringa also works (but in the dept of Chemistry) and he won the Nobel prize on Oct 5th 2016, for his molecular cars.
  And I have a Erdos number of 4. Mathematican Paul Erdos used to collaborate with scientists from different fields and at one point people started measuring their connectivity to Paul Erdos by checking the authorship relation between the co-authors of Erdos with their other co-authors. So people who wrote a paper with Erdos himself had Erdos number 1. People who wrote a paper with those people whose Erdos number was 1, have Erdos number 2, and so on.
- Adam Wootton answered on 20 Nov 2019:
  
  David Attenborough visited my University a few months ago and I think I saw the back of his jacket while he was surrounded by students. Does that count?
- Anastasia Aliferi answered on 20 Nov 2019:
  
  My supervisors do a lot of interviews for TV and radio so I guess they are kind of famous! Also last year when I took part in Soapbox science (it’s an event where you literally stand on a soapbox and talk about your research) I met Dr Jess Wade who is the scientist uploading the biographies of female scientist on wikipedia and recently was awarded a British Empire Medal!

Question: have you met any famous scientists ?

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