Which Scientist Should Go On The New £50 Note?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/46069889
I'd Go with Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking would be my second choice.

[kvalidir]

Got to agree with both of those TTT with a strong preference for Alan Turing, he deserves all the gratitude and acknowledgement we can give him.

[zebo]

My No 1 would be Turing but I would also propose Tim Berners-Lee.

[spathiphyllum]

famous scientists really does narrow it down to a select few.. Newton, Hawking, Darwin etc... What about authors? Lewis Carroll to name one.

[ludwig]

Turing for me too. Berners-Lee and Hawking came later so can go on future notes.

[SparklyKid]

Fred Dibnah.

[fiction-factory]

Mrs T was a scientist- that would wind gulliver up

[Mamyalynne]

Alan Turing or Ada Lovelace.

[jackthehat]

Ada Lovelace or Joan Clarke

[jim360]

Hawking. Although wouldn't mind Turing either.

Or Jocelyn Bell? She should have got a Nobel Prize but, famously, didn't.

[Sqad]

JTH Don't you mean ....Linda Lovelace ?.......;-)

[naomi24]

Turing.

[Mamyalynne]

Jocelyn is still alive Jim, don't nominees have to be deceased?

[mushroom25]

all worthy nominees so far - but will probably all be adjudged "too white".

[spathiphyllum]

Only if you speak it into existence mushroom

[jim360]

Possibly, Mamya. I didn't look into it well enough to note that qualification.

[ToraToraTora]

FF, yes she was but she is reserved for far greater honour, the lower the note denomination the higher the honour, hence TGM is on the fiver, TGL will be on future fivers.

[jim360]

Clearly Thatcher *should* end up on a note at some point, just a question of when.

[SparklyKid]

Ada Lovelace was Byrons daughter. Brilliant woman, the name Ada is used for Aircraft traffic control systems.

Still think Fred Dibnah would be a good choice.

[Guilbert53]

How about Tommy Flowers, who designed and built the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.

He even used some of his own money to build it when funds were not forthcoming.

Not as famous as Turing of course (who also deserves his fame) but often many people do amazing things but don't always get the recognition they deserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

[retrocop]

Fred was more an engineer than a scientist Sparkly though he always went out with a bang. :-)