Field: Theoretical Physics
Claim to Fame: Hawking Radiation, which is the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation
Quote: "Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
Image Source: Stephen Hawkings, wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking (accessed 21st April 2010)
Quote Source: Nazih Ghanim Elhayek, Citizens of Planet Earth, Tafford Publishing 2006 pg.18
Charles Darwin
An 1871 caricature following the publication of The Descent of Man
was typical of many showing Darwin with an ape body, identifying
him in popular culture as the leading author of evolutionary theory
Field: Biologist
Claim to Fame: Theory of Evolution
Quote: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Image Source: Charles Darwin, wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin (accessed 21st April 2010)
Quote Source: Charles Darwin Quotes, physics org, http://www.physorg.com/news8383.html (accessed 20th April 2010)
Nicole Kuepper
Nicole Kuepper in the labs at UNSW
Field: Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Claim to Fame: iJET cell concepts, which is solar cells made out of affordable components.
Quote: "I love working with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty by thinking and experimenting outside the square,"
Quote and Image Source: Deborah Smith, 'Thinking Outside the Square Finds Light in the Over', SMH, August 20, 2008
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