Question: Who's your favourite scientist and why?

Sam Lawrence answered on 12 Nov 2019:

Richard Feynman is one of my favourite scientists. He had such a passion and curiosity for science, a natural born scientist. He was very quirky and played pranks on his colleagues. It was important for him to understand the fundamentals of anything he was researching. One of the things he claimed was that we only truly understand something once we can take it all apart and rebuild it back to its working condition (like a car), however we aren’t quite there yet with the human body. His way of looking at scientific problems were special, using his physical intuition to solve equations. He worked a lot on high energy physics (small scale particle physics) and even won the Nobel Prize in 1965.