Who is your favourite fictional scientist?
Hi all,
An upcoming episode of Brains Matter and the Mr Science Show will discuss fictional scientists. What we want from you is your suggestion (s) on who you think are worthy candidates for the list. From Dr Strangelove to the Professor from Gilligans Island – who do you think deserves a bit of recognition?
They could be from movies, print, or television shows.
Leave a note and share your two cents worth!
OG
August 3rd, 2008 at 20:14
Although the character is a pre-science scientist, I reckon William of Baskerville’s a good one.
August 5th, 2008 at 03:15
Heywood Floyd from Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series.
Actually, no, changed my mind. Richard Wakefield from Clarke’s Rama series, co written with Gentry Lee
August 5th, 2008 at 16:35
Does Montgomery Scott count? or Leonard “Bones” McCoy? Surely Spock counts… but what about Data? Geordi La Forge? Wesley Crusher?
August 7th, 2008 at 19:30
Definitely Conan Doyle’s Watson! Such a nifty methodologist.
August 9th, 2008 at 23:15
I support Heywood Floyd from 2001. After all Arthur C. did pass into the annuls of legendary sc-fi authors this year…vale Arthur.
August 19th, 2008 at 23:09
I kind of like Professor Challenger from the Arthur Conan Doyle books. “The Maracot deep” “The Lost World” “The Day the World Screamed.” A rebel and one at odds with the scientific establishment. (speaking of Conan Doyle, surely it was Holmes himself and not Watson that was the scientist of the pair … Watson was a MD, little else.)
A couple more, of course Professor Carlson from “Get Smart” great gadgets and Professor John Robinson from “Lost in Space” not only a Professor, but hero as well.