Which Scientist for the £50 Note? - Objectivity 189

[@puupipo]

To anyone wondering, it currently says on the Bank of England website that "a polymer £50 note featuring *Alan Turing* will be issued" in 2021.

[@nix207]

Hey, I went into the comments just to look for an update. Thanks

[@shugaroony]

Not featured here surprisingly, but an excellent choice for a truly great scientist.

[@Nelthorim]

After how the British government treated him, I think Alan Turing would fit the bill (heh) quite nicely. Not even mentioning that he ushered the Age of Information and most of modern technology.

[@EladLerner]

Oh yes! I agree so much! It must be Turing.

[@sampaiosamps9930]

Alan was the first name in my head

[@LeoMRogers]

​@William White But Hawking has?

[@cykikvisage]

@@LeoMRogers We need a Celebrity Deathmatch episode to settle this.

[@hiperalee]

Agradeça Alan Turing, ateu e homossexual, pai da ciência da computação

[@Nobody_Special310]

As long as the scientist in question is depicted laughing maniacally with lightning in the background, I'm good with anyone.

[@simontay4851]

So tesla then...

[@schokoman11]

I think that Alan Turing should be on the 50£ Note. His Influence on our daily life today is enormous and the way he was treated by the government because of his homosexuality was so horrible that he really deserves to get that honor.

[@hiperalee]

Agradeça Alan Turing, ateu e homossexual, pai da ciência da computação

[@larryscott3982]

William White But Turing’s work was instrumental in winning the war effort. So war hero and computer science

[@rfldss89]

I'm vaguely familiar with what a quaker is, but what's the firewatching act and why would it require a conscience clause?

[@FoxDren]

it was an act during WW2 that allowed the goverment to compel people to take up firewatches (basically force people to be firemen)

[@Tedd755]

Sciencey McScienceface

[@mepeck316]

Keith draws really well!

[@jsheradin]

"This is from 1976" "That's the year I was born!" Didn't think Brady was 42!

[@piccalillipit9211]

All these KZbinrs are older than you think - its cos they are so high energy and lively in order to attract an audience. The guy from Smarter Every Day is 40 and looks about 25

[@alistairmcleod7273]

James Clerk Maxwell. Why are we even discussing this. Generally agreed to be in the top 3 scientists of all time. Einstein picked up where he left off.

[@AureliusR]

I guess you missed the part where they had to be from the 20th century?

[@jedmarshall217]

Gotta pick Faraday. He’s an amazing scientist and did so with almost no formal training, raising up from poverty to be one of, if not the, most influential scientists of the 19th century.

[@BrawnyFanta]

Is no-one else going to say how impressed they are with Keith's design and art skills? Man of many talents.

[@Varil81]

Alan Turing.

[@FoxDren]

We did it we got Alan Turing on the new £50

[@TheseGunsOnly]

It is obviously going to be Sir Martyn Poliakoff

[@sundhaug92]

Unfortunately, the requirements includes that the scientist must have passed away

[@vlnow]

Would Alexander Fleming be eligible as a Scotsman? I think he would be a good choice.

[@Photonface]

James Clerk Maxwell. No contest.

[@Riiisuu]

Richard Bruno I think Sir Isaac Newton should be on it

[@2neutrino]

@@Riiisuu No

[@Wecoc1]

That Steven Hawking drawing is hilarious

[@AdriLeemput]

I really love that they had to say "it can't be Doctor Who". Not Sherlock Holmes, not James Bond, not Marry Poppins, but Doctor Who

[@Cadwaladr]

The macaroni cheese recipe seems reasonable enough, but it's a bit short on instructions. It never says what you do with the salt, and anyone not familiar with the process of making a roux will probably muck up the sauce making step. Anyway, I'm guessing you're supposed to put the salt into the water for boiling the macaroni. I might give it a go on Friday.

[@ObjectivityVideos]

Let us know how it goes!

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

Nevil Maskelyne and/or John Harrison, for their outstanding contributions to the solution of the Longitude problem

[@willisgold123]

Alan Turing surely

[@MarkTillotson]

So Brady, you were deliberately drawing like that to help Keith's talents stand out the more (moore?)... :)

[@911gpd]

Maxwell Newton Turing

[@PetrFlosman]

Alan Turing

[@RMoribayashi]

The nutritional value of creme crackers and digestive biscuits... Priceless.

[@simontay4851]

Pretty much zero.

[@rewrose2838]

@@simontay4851 5 months later and not really, even water with its 0 caloric value has effect on the whole digestive system, there is nutritive value to everything that's consumed (not necessarily positive I may admit)

[@culwin]

Poundy McPoundface

[@eaterdrinker000]

Brexity MacBrexitface

[@agbook2007]

Alan Turing or Sir Isaac Newton

[@bepsi6204]

Newton was already was on the one pound note

[@simontay4851]

The UK doesn't have a one pound note.

[@Nilguiri]

@@simontay4851 And never has--oh wait.

[@simontay4851]

@@Nilguiri I have found out since typing that - that the pound note was withdrawn in 1988. I would've only been 4 then so no wonder i don't remember.

[@EGarrett01]

Past tense is hard, I can imagine.

[@Eisenhart9]

I really enjoy these videos and I love Keith, he's such an awesome guy.

[@MarkTillotson]

Can't they do a bunch of them, like the Beatles Lonely Hearts cover?

[@princeedmunddukeofedinburg]

Wait a minute, Queen is still alive...

[@realcundo]

Voted for Alan Turing but I'm having seconds thoughts, I think he deserves to be on a more common bank note -- haven't seen a £50 note in the last 10 years. Other than that, great episode, it's good to learn about lesser known scientists (for me at least) and their fields of study.

[@HebaruSan]

James Clerk Maxwell!

[@Photonface]

In the top 3 scientists of all time, but people don't know about him, so he should definitely be on the fifty pound note definitely needs reappraisal.

[@SlideRulePirate]

My immediate thought.

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Keith really captured her visages essence. Quite the artist. I also suggest Alan Turing.

[@FlyingSavannahs]

I think Brady's Audrey should be featured in the portrait.

[@BurnabyAlex]

Why not Ada Lovelace?

[@ricato2]

My thought exactly

[@RFC3514]

People go on about Turing, because he had a (highly inaccurate) movie made about him, and he certainly made important contributions to mathematics, but Lovelace's work is actually a lot more relevant for computing, which (young people assure me) is kind of a big deal these days.

[@chrisofnottingham]

I can't believe Maxwell isn't already on a note, it would be nice to have a woman but for goodness sake , he's James Clark Maxwell - scientists don't get much more amazing than that!

[@dnstone1127]

Maxwell is a Scot , this is a £50 Bank of England note.

[@dnstone1127]

£50 note - Frederick Soddy, not only Nobel prize winner in chemistry but astute writer on economics too.

[@peppers1587]

Alan Turing please. This man is owed some respect by the government.

[@mfbfreak]

Lovelace or Turing?

[@zippogirl]

That's where I'm at. I'd be very happy with either.

[@simontay4851]

Thats where you ARE! Not at.

[@KoolBreeze420]

Hawking but at what age should the picture be taken from?

[@squidcaps4308]

Paradox: the drawings are worthless but if we add them to the collection they are instantly worth something but we don't put worthless items in the collection. Otherwise we would have to put everything in the collection since anything is worth something once it is in the collection. Once everything is in the collection, everything becomes worthless since a collection can't be "everything". It can be a collection only if all the items in it are somehow unique and special and everything is by default not special.

[@ZeedijkMike]

I probably said this a 100 times - but I say it again. You guys are the best.

[@horsetuna]

I didn't know that the charter book was signed alphabetically. On one of the other ones they Show Margaret Thatcher and I'll call them above David Attenborough. I'm guessing that it's not one page per event them but they just pick up where the next one ended

[@FriedrichHerschel]

Put the whole Herschel family on it. William, John and Caroline.

[@haamster]

I call Keith for Pictionary teammate.

[@MarkTillotson]

His secret vice is out!

[@keithbecker3142]

ThinkerCon was great! Thanks for going!

[@arturrutkowski2100]

Keith Moore. There are like 150k subscribers here. If you guys agree with me, let's vote! :)

[@JBantha]

Is there a video that's just a Keith's interview?

[@quintrankid8045]

Islambard Kingdom Brunel

[@MarkTillotson]

Hmm, don't think the remit covers engineers or mathematicians.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@MarkTillotson Would having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society count toward allowing him this honor?

[@stumbling]

Do a bio on every Royal Society member!

[@douro20]

Oliver Heaviside

[@bergpolarbear]

A bit disappointed that you didn’t show the ramp at the building entrance.

[@MarkTillotson]

Probably because its a lift?

[@HisameArtwork]

Another awesome vid, thank you :D

[@toolebukk]

Is it just me, or does Keith's Elsie Widdowson look just like Keith himself 😂

[@Tfin]

Proposal: Change the pound to the "British dollar," starting with the 50. :)

[@criskity]

Robert Hooke!

[@saigade1236]

I vote for Alan Turing. After all he's done for the country, for the British government, and for the world (inventor of the modern computer, pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, groundbreaking research in mathematics, logic, cryptography, and many more achievements), and for how he was treated just because he was a homosexual, I feel like putting him on the 50 pound note is the least we could do.

[@Photonface]

If not James Clerk Maxwell. Why not Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley. Would have got the Nobel prize for physics in 1916 but gave his life for his country at Gallipoli. The Army changed the rules for eligibility because of his death. What about the prior Lucasian professor of Physics before Stephen Hawkin, Paul Dirac. There are some massive figures in Science that should be on that 50 pound note way before the ones they are saying in this video. To give them the exposure that they deserve. Alexander fucking Fleming. JJ Thomson. Lord Kelvin. The List goes on for the Best Scientists to be on the fifty pound note.

[@Antigoneofthebes]

we should wait a decade or 2 and get sir martyn on the note

[@PinkChucky15]

When will they announce their pick?

[@AlonsoRules]

Put Rosalind Franklin on it

[@bloemundude]

A black hole would be appropriate to signify the ever diminishing value of the pound in a fiat currency system. Or perhaps Dara O-Briain if someone would quickly off him to make my suggestion make sense. j.k.

[@Tevildo]

A bit left-field, but how about Mary Anning? She satisfies the PC requirements, and made a very important contribution to paleontology and the theory of evolution. Without the PC requirement, my choice would be Dirac.

[@MisterTalkingMachine]

I agreed completely for an infinitesimal amount of time.

[@Shadow81989]

Out of the three entries from the video, I would actually put Kathleen Lonsdale. Nutrition research is important and all, but somehow that doesn't seem interesting enough, while Stephen Hawking already got quite a lot of the attention he deserved. The first female fellow though, and somebody I have not heard about before, doing very interesting research - that seems like a good combination, and perhaps an inspiration for young girls to consider scientific subjects a bit more often. Reading through the comments though, Alan Turing sounds like a great option, and much more so than the entries from the video!

[@Dave_Sisson]

Tommy Flowers. More than anyone else, he did the most to invent the electronic computer.

[@frazlesc6937]

I put Professor Poliakoff on the back for the new £50 note.

[@FasAntick]

great video!

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

The choice will be made easier by simply excluding around half the humans that have ever lived.

[@muralibhat8776]

NEWTON!!!! FARADAY!!!!

[@JavierSalcedoC]

Alan Baker, only to label it as £7^2+1

[@badsyntax173]

#teamAlanTuring

[@Riiisuu]

I personally think it should be Sir Isaac Newton

[@erictaylor5462]

Ben Franklin. Though he is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he was born in England, and served as an Ambassador to England. His role in English history is as important as his role in the history of the United States.

[@Bobbybulsara179]

I demand appropriate representation of colour from this country, so in that case I want the most under represented group of people who go largely unnoticed and never make a fuss despite being the most downtrodden out of all groups of people, which is the ginger population of this country which experiences a type of racism more than any other group but represent a massive portion of the population and are fantastic, I’ve never met a nasty ginger person.

[@heyandy889]

Babbage? Well actually going that route you've gotta go Ms. Lovelace... edit: again just because I figure Hawking has enough credit without the honor, I would vote for either of the two women in the video.

[@gythwulf]

Brady should receive an honorary knighthood imo.

[@sschmidtevalue]

Brady has received the Medal of the Order of Australia, which is pretty close.

[@JosueSantiagoG]

Stephen Hawking seems like the astoundingly obvious choice. It's truly nothing against these other scientists, but was there any greater mind beyond Einstein in our modern time?

[@JosueSantiagoG]

But I'm not a subject of the Crown, so it doesn't matter what I think. Just throwing in my 2 cents.

[@nicolazgraggen6125]

keith drew himself

[@sentinel7778]

Sir Isaac Newton! Edit: Okay now i know he was in one of the old notes. Thanks!

[@euanlatimer9150]

He was already on the old £1 note

[@JonathanCorwin]

Sir Isaac Newton has already made an appearance, on the old £1 note

[@simontay4851]

Ive never heard of the 1 pound note. When did the 1 pound exist until?

[@JonathanCorwin]

@@simontay4851 The pound coin arrived in 1983, and the Bank of England pound note was withdrawn in 1988. The Bank of Scotland still produced them until 2001 though, still legal tender there if you can find one!

[@sentinel7778]

Ohhh i see thanks for the info!

[@arne897]

Alan Turing of course! Or a woman would also be nice

[@TheTwick]

Brady, you know Dr. Who doesn’t DIE, they just regenerate 😆

[@STOG01]

As much as I'd like Hawking to be there. Widdowson probably is the best candidate.

[@STOG01]

@MichaelKingsfordGray nope, because her work saved millions of lives during the war. Rationing can be much more horrible.

[@keithbecker3142]

What about Ben Franklin? A little friendly sharing between the US and GB.

[@jroemling]

I count on you to talk about this on Hello Internet!

[@Xyxthris]

Lovelace!

[@Vardagaladhiel]

Such interesting suggestions! I am rather ashamed that I had not heard of either female scientist, but I definitely want to go and find out more about them.

[@-Kerstin]

From what was mentioned in this video I don't think Kathleen Lonsdale or Elsie May Widdowson are even close to as worthy as Stephen Hawking. It would be silly if they go with a woman simply because of her gender.

[@Garbaz]

I get the idea of putting a woman on the note. But I can't argue against Turing either

[@treborely]

Rosalind Franklin

[@holdmybeer]

darn i was thumbs up "#421"

[@demos113]

Would like Rosalind Franklin to be on it.

[@purepk3rz4]

Steven hawking

[@tscoffey1]

If it isn't Newton, then the contest has no meaning. Greatest English scientific mind ever.

[@hyf-sd1yc]

He was already on the previous version of one pound note so...

[@j0hnc00]

Stephen Hawking

[@ZexMaxwell]

steven hawking all the way.

[@Photonface]

With your surname it should be James Clerk Maxwell. Look him up.

[@KevinOBrien-de6zp]

Newton is the obvious choice.

[@BobOgden1]

Rosalind Elsie Franklin should have the honor

[@bobrobert1123]

Psh, for what

[@Riiisuu]

“Honor”, you’re American, please leave.

[@bobair2]

Stephen Hawking most definitely as he is so very well known the world over.

[@wmahomet]

Ada Lovelace... or Alan Turing!

[@miekekuppen9275]

I see Keith. I click like.