• Question: Who is your hero?

    Asked by elhermano to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by sammieblues, nemoanddory.
    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      My hero is not someone who’s lived and is now a legend. My hero is more local and that is my PhD supervisor, Paul Frick. He is a generous and loyal supervisor, who always inspires me.

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I don’t have a single hero, but take my inspiration from all around.. In terms of my scientific career, I was fortunate to work with some inspirational, and very different, scientists during my PhD (Steve Sparks, now Bristol Uni) and my post-doctoral research (Ed Stolper, Caltech). Earlier, I was certainly influenced by my Dad, who was a scientist as well; and for volcanoes, inspiration in part came from Peter Francis. In the history of science, there are too many inspirational figures to mention – but reading about the ways that Marie Curie and Dorothy Hodgkin set about their science is quite extraordinary.

    • Photo: Probash Chowdhury

      Probash Chowdhury answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      My dad. He picked me up when I was down, he kept my feet on the ground when I was too inflated, he was the man I always looked up to and now he’s still there when I need him even though I am a dad too.

    • Photo: Mark Vesey

      Mark Vesey answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      My Nanna – she’s amazing, still going strong and exceptionally brave. She’s inspirational!

      I’ve got a couple of sporting heroes too: Eric Cantona & Andrew Flintoff.

    • Photo: Melanie Stefan

      Melanie Stefan answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Matthias Sindelar. He was one of the best football players in the 1920s and 30s, and he publicly opposed the Nazi regime. A great person.

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