The Bank of England hasannouncedit would like to feature a scientist on the new £ 50 Federal Reserve note . So , whom should they pick ?
The initial annunciation of a £ 50 redesign sparked societal media campaign for all sorts of famous Brits , including British spy Noor Inayat Khan and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . But a new post from the Bank of England ’s website said it would take a contributor to the field of science who is dead and will “ invigorate multitude , not divide them . ” It said it would consider any contributor to the fields of applied or stark scientific discipline .
Rather than a vote , the Bank of England is asking the public for nomination , and will then whittle down the list based on diachronic research and rivet groups . The bank ’s governor would make the last conclusion . This seems wise , given that public votes to name things often terminate up withBoaty McBoatface .
you could name peoplehere , and there is obviously anenormous numberof dead Brits to prefer from . There ’s Charles Darwin , sire of evolutionary theory ; Rosalind Franklin , who contributed to understanding the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid but died before the Nobel Prize for the discovery was awarded ; Ada Lovelace , count to be the first computer programmer ; or Alan Turing , notable scientist who develop much of modern computing possibility .
Some , like British physicistBrian Cox , haverecommendedthat Stephen Hawking take in the honour for his share to cosmology , understanding black holes , and popular Christian Bible . The UK Royal Society ’s president Venki Ramakrishnan told the Guardian he would pick Dorothy Hodgkin , the only female Briton to have win a science Nobel Prize .
The bank has not announced when it will release the new preeminence .
As an American , I do n’t have a say here . But maybe they should rise the deceased rule and go with the zoologist who save the book onanimal wind .
[ via The Guardian ]
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