New £50 note will feature a British scientist...

[Pickman's model]

should be an inventor or scientist - Wilf Lunn or Magnus Pike

Heath robinson

 

[teqniq]

Alan Turing for me.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Heath robinson

lets have all three - in front of their contraptions

 

[Yossarian]

I'd vote for Turing... but Edward Craven Walker, inventor of the lava lamp, would look good on a banknote.

 

[weltweit]

The only person I knew who ever had £50.00 notes was a show off, he liked to buy rounds in the local pub and pay with a 50 .. the only person I have come across like that.

 

[Sprocket.]

I also think it may be too early for Sir Peter Mansfield, inventor of the MRI scanner, he only died last year.

 

[strung out]

If being dead is a requirement, how about James Dyson?

 

[Jonathan1990]

No one mentioned yet Thomas Edison.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Another vote for Hawking.

 

[gosub]

No one mentioned yet Thomas Edison.

Swan might not be a bad idea. Everyone forgets he came up with the light bulb on his own

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

No one mentioned yet Thomas Edison.

For several good reasons, most likely

 

[Riklet]

No one mentioned yet Thomas Edison.

Great slave-owning Edison.

Next theyll be putting that great past bigot and murderer Winston Churchill on our funny money. Oh wait.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Great slave-owning Edison.

He'd have had to have been a child prodigy slave owner.

 

[petee]

is rutherford not british enough?

 

[Riklet]

Closer to Remembrance Sunday puffed up on patriotism some cunt will bring up why it should be Thatcher.

Ada Lovelace gets my vote so far cos I've never heard of her. Which makes a change from all the boring bland and predictable options.

 

[Riklet]

Or what about Dorothy Hodgkin.

Did research on insulin b12 and penicillin. Won Nobel prize in chemistry in 1964 too.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Ada Lovelace gets my vote so far cos I've never heard of her. Which makes a change from all the boring bland and predictable options.

This is not a good philosophy to live by. What's boring and bland about Maxwell, Hodgkin or Sanger, do you reckon in your reckonings?

 

[Nylock]

Ada Lovelace for me too.

 

[Riklet]

This is not a good philosophy to live by. What's boring and bland about Maxwell, Hodgkin or Sanger, do you reckon in your reckonings?

I meant more previously. At least now they're asking people, and some interesting choices have come up. Clearly Guv of bank of England agrees with me since he's asking for people to "think beyond the obvious".

Ie not Diana, Thatcher, Enid Blyton, Shakespeare (again) John Stewart Mill etc. I mean Jesus Christ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[MickiQ]

is rutherford not british enough?

More British than Edison though There are some good choices being mooted on this forum, the thing about dead scientists it doesn't take long after their deaths for the only thing people to remember about them is the sciemce
they did. They become uncontroversial much quicker than politicians

 

[Sprocket.]

John Logie Baird, we would miss telly.

 

[hash tag]

Turing.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Barnes Wallace - You try to pay for something using the £50 note and it bounces.

 

[2hats]

Mary Anning. Great excuse to have dinosaurs on a note.

 

[petee]

More British than Edison

i had no idea that edison had any british connection. having had a little look around, i still don't see it.
he is very strongly tied with NJ over here.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

r.v. jones ftw

Missed this earlier. I'm guessing you've read his Most Secret War? For those who haven't, it's a fascinating read - there was a crucial battle being waged in the electromagnetic spectrum unbeknown to most. It helps that he was also a pretty decent writer too.

 

[fishfinger]

I don't care who they put on the note, as it'll only be rich fuckers who see them anyway.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I don't care who they put on the note, as it'll only be rich fuckers who see them anyway.

more likely it will be drug dealers, cash in hand type tradespeople and people buying 2nd hand cars.

 

[RoryG]

The more I think about this, the more likely I think it will be Hawking. It *could* be Turing, and they could go for a female, but I just think it's by far the easiest and most popular option.

 

[RoryG]

I don't care who they put on the note, as it'll only be rich fuckers who see them anyway.

I only ever see them when I have a good evening playing poker.