Do you have a scientist that you would look up to

Question: Do you have a scientist that you would look up to
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  inspiration
Asked by Russell to Caoimhe, Colin, David, Katie, Lisa on 14 Nov 2014.
- David Taylor answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  Isaac Newton was pretty amazing. Without him there wouldn’t be any mechanical engineering. He worked out how things move and how forces act. It was all so new at the time he had to invent a whole new type of maths to work out the answers – that’s Calculus.
- Katie Mahon answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  Leonardo da Vinci was a bit of everything, I think he’s amazing! He was a brilliant artist – painter & sculptor. But he was also a brilliant engineer, he did sketches & drawings of inventions long before anyone else thought of them. He really was a genius!
  
  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
- Colin Keogh answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  Nikola Tesla is mine. He was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, who helped design the -modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He was a sterotypical “Mad Scientist”, but invented some crazy stuff like wireless power & communication.
- Caoimhe O'Neill answered on 21 Nov 2014:
  
  I look up to an engineer called Peter Rice – he was always thinking of ways to do things differently and always accepted a challenge. Check out more info on him here – http://creativityni.org/news/queens-celebrates-engineering-icon

Question: Do you have a scientist that you would look up to