After how the British government treated him, I think Alan Turing would fit the bill (heh) quite nicely. Not even mentioning that he ushered the Age of Information and most of modern technology.
I think that Alan Turing should be on the 50£ Note. His Influence on our daily life today is enormous and the way he was treated by the government because of his homosexuality was so horrible that he really deserves to get that honor.
James Clerk Maxwell. Why are we even discussing this. Generally agreed to be in the top 3 scientists of all time. Einstein picked up where he left off.
All these RU-vidrs are older than you think - its cos they are so high energy and lively in order to attract an audience. The guy from Smarter Every Day is 40 and looks about 25
Gotta pick Faraday. He’s an amazing scientist and did so with almost no formal training, raising up from poverty to be one of, if not the, most influential scientists of the 19th century.
The macaroni cheese recipe seems reasonable enough, but it's a bit short on instructions. It never says what you do with the salt, and anyone not familiar with the process of making a roux will probably muck up the sauce making step. Anyway, I'm guessing you're supposed to put the salt into the water for boiling the macaroni. I might give it a go on Friday.
I demand appropriate representation of colour from this country, so in that case I want the most under represented group of people who go largely unnoticed and never make a fuss despite being the most downtrodden out of all groups of people, which is the ginger population of this country which experiences a type of racism more than any other group but represent a massive portion of the population and are fantastic, I’ve never met a nasty ginger person.
I can't believe Maxwell isn't already on a note, it would be nice to have a woman but for goodness sake , he's James Clark Maxwell - scientists don't get much more amazing than that!
Voted for Alan Turing but I'm having seconds thoughts, I think he deserves to be on a more common bank note -- haven't seen a £50 note in the last 10 years. Other than that, great episode, it's good to learn about lesser known scientists (for me at least) and their fields of study.
If not James Clerk Maxwell. Why not Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley. Would have got the Nobel prize for physics in 1916 but gave his life for his country at Gallipoli. The Army changed the rules for eligibility because of his death. What about the prior Lucasian professor of Physics before Stephen Hawkin, Paul Dirac. There are some massive figures in Science that should be on that 50 pound note way before the ones they are saying in this video. To give them the exposure that they deserve. Alexander fucking Fleming. JJ Thomson. Lord Kelvin. The List goes on for the Best Scientists to be on the fifty pound note.
I vote for Alan Turing. After all he's done for the country, for the British government, and for the world (inventor of the modern computer, pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, groundbreaking research in mathematics, logic, cryptography, and many more achievements), and for how he was treated just because he was a homosexual, I feel like putting him on the 50 pound note is the least we could do.
A black hole would be appropriate to signify the ever diminishing value of the pound in a fiat currency system. Or perhaps Dara O-Briain if someone would quickly off him to make my suggestion make sense. j.k.
I didn't know that the charter book was signed alphabetically. On one of the other ones they Show Margaret Thatcher and I'll call them above David Attenborough. I'm guessing that it's not one page per event them but they just pick up where the next one ended
@@simontay4851 5 months later and not really, even water with its 0 caloric value has effect on the whole digestive system, there is nutritive value to everything that's consumed (not necessarily positive I may admit)
From what was mentioned in this video I don't think Kathleen Lonsdale or Elsie May Widdowson are even close to as worthy as Stephen Hawking. It would be silly if they go with a woman simply because of her gender.
People go on about Turing, because he had a (highly inaccurate) movie made about him, and he certainly made important contributions to mathematics, but Lovelace's work is actually a lot more relevant for computing, which (young people assure me) is kind of a big deal these days.
Stephen Hawking seems like the astoundingly obvious choice. It's truly nothing against these other scientists, but was there any greater mind beyond Einstein in our modern time?
Babbage? Well actually going that route you've gotta go Ms. Lovelace... edit: again just because I figure Hawking has enough credit without the honor, I would vote for either of the two women in the video.
Paradox: the drawings are worthless but if we add them to the collection they are instantly worth something but we don't put worthless items in the collection. Otherwise we would have to put everything in the collection since anything is worth something once it is in the collection. Once everything is in the collection, everything becomes worthless since a collection can't be "everything". It can be a collection only if all the items in it are somehow unique and special and everything is by default not special.
@@simontay4851 The pound coin arrived in 1983, and the Bank of England pound note was withdrawn in 1988. The Bank of Scotland still produced them until 2001 though, still legal tender there if you can find one!
Out of the three entries from the video, I would actually put Kathleen Lonsdale. Nutrition research is important and all, but somehow that doesn't seem interesting enough, while Stephen Hawking already got quite a lot of the attention he deserved. The first female fellow though, and somebody I have not heard about before, doing very interesting research - that seems like a good combination, and perhaps an inspiration for young girls to consider scientific subjects a bit more often. Reading through the comments though, Alan Turing sounds like a great option, and much more so than the entries from the video!
A bit left-field, but how about Mary Anning? She satisfies the PC requirements, and made a very important contribution to paleontology and the theory of evolution. Without the PC requirement, my choice would be Dirac.
I'd like to see Stephen Hawking on the new £50 note but the politicians will probably go with Turing to assuage their collective guilt with gilt. (Sorry, Mr. Shakespeare).
