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Which scientist or engineer do you admire the most? I need to write an essay on someone who has given his or her life to science and is still alive. Doesnt have to be a major scientist who has been recognized, just someone who works harsh, anyone whos toil has been overlooked but has changed mans life. I enjoy robots and computing and programming, maybe someone who works with that? My teachers the feminist kind, all women scientists are welcome. Its for my English class tomorrow, I cant ponder of anyone. No ideas are ignorant, it can even be your neighbour or you or something. Help me please? Need this A......

Here are three ideas.

1. Peter Goldreich. Google him. Since the Nobel committee doe not give prizes in Planetary Science nor even in Astrophysics, PG is not eligible; but theres an asteroid named after him, and hes at the Institute for Advanced Studie, where Einstein ended up. Goldreich used to give a highly-popular Caltech course called "Order of Magnitude Physics," in which students would be asked "off the wall" questions like how many electrons are in the Empire State Building (and then have to get some reasonable way of estimating an answer). His research accomplishments are outlined in Wikipedia and other sites.

2. Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel-winning chemist. Apart from material available online, what I can tell you about Herschbach is that he alway say you dont have to be really smart to win a Nobel prize, you just have to be really interested in some problem that nobody else ha solved. (Of course, you have to be smart enough to solve it! - thats the catch!)

#3. Consider "rex" and "kuiperbelt," two of the top answerer in Physics on Yahoo!Answers. I choose them because their percentage of "best answers" exceeds that of several persons whose total best answer i somewhat higher. Just think, they are giving their expertise for free -- maybe your teacher would like that. Of course, you cant find out much of anything about them...