Which Scientist Should Go On The New £50 Note?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/46069889
I'd Go with Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking would be my second choice.

[SparklyKid]

Why does it have to be a scientist.

[jim360]

It's been decided that it will be a scientist. And why not? A lot of the people on notes have been authors, artists, or politicians -- so I guess it's now the scientists' turn.

[Khandro]

jim

[SparklyKid]

In that case it has to be Richard Dawkins.

[retrocop]

Cos Scientist is in the title of the OP.

[retrocop]

Alan Turing or Tommy Flowers both brilliant in similar ways.

[jim360]

What Khandro said, although I wasn't planning on dying in time to be eligible :P

[ToraToraTora]

I'd be happy with flowers guilbert and indeed Gordon Welchman, another light hidden by Turing's Brilliance. The Bombe was much faster and thus much more successful once they'd incorporated the brilliantly simple yet ingenious "diagonal board" designed by Welchman.

[Baldric]

Turing, deffo.

[tamborine]

Mrs T for
1.1st fem PM
2.99% mortgages
3.poll tax
4.saving miners lungs & avoiding another Aberfan
5. Falklands
6.making council house purchasers into millionaires
7. For not being a scientist but a humanist ;)

[Khandro]

jim; I'm not sure if it applies to scientists, but it's always a good career-move for artists.

[emmie]

Stephen Hawking

[SparklyKid]

Not Stephen hawking. Hardly anyone understands him and he has done nothing to make our lives better or safer, unlike Turing.

[Peter Pedant]

// My No 1 would be Turing but I would also propose Tim Berners-Lee.//

they have to be dead scientists - is he?

Did you hear someone refer to the prime computer pioneer as Adder Lovelace - Byrons er relation ?
The only one to understand Mr Babbages calculating engine

Dorothy Hodgkin ?

[Peter Pedant]

// For not being a scientist but a humanist ;)// Mrs T

no I am sorry she was a scientist - worked on food tech
specifically trying to fluff up crap so people would buy it

yeah yeah useful for a future career in ..... hear dthat one many times

[Khandro]

Is there a distinction between scientists and inventors? not much; so I would (after jim as first choice) nominate the Yorkshireman, John Harrington, who in 1596 invented the flushing toilet.
His portrait on the note, along with a beautiful engraving of the product as later popularised by Thomas Crapper.

[Peter Pedant]

// JTH Don't you mean ....Linda Lovelace ?.......;-)// ( comment on Ada or Adder Lovelace )

and not Dorothy Hodgkin or Thomas Hodgking - he of the disease - but one of those delightfuyl little Munchkins from The WIzard...

Can be a gurl but presumably has to be English / UK nationality

[Peter Pedant]

Dr Dee ? - he of the smoke and mirrors
now you see him now you dont - - - a bit like the £50 note

benjamin Thomson - Count Rumford ?

[retrocop]

Beatrice Shilling aka Tilly’s orifice’ Shilling by the fly boys.

[jim360]

Eh, Hawking made my life better, since he inspired me to become a scientist. Sure I'm not the only one.