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Asked by wkd4 to Alan, Caspar, Diana, Murray, Sarah on 15 Mar 2011 in Categories: General.
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Sarah Thomas answered on 14 Mar 2011:
Haha!! No! I don’t think I have ever met someone that famous. Also, I’m not sure I’d want to, I think I would be scared!
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Murray Collins answered on 14 Mar 2011:
Nope! But I did speak to Patrick Moore a few times though when I wanted to be an astronomer. I wrote to him asking for advice and he just called me up. Really nice guy!
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Caspar Addyman answered on 14 Mar 2011:
Yes. I did a Maths degree at Cambridge and he was a professor there. You would often see him around the department. I only met him once when I had a job interview with him. I had just finished my degree and he was looking for a new assistant to help when he travelled around the world. He would do all the maths and physics and you would look after his computers and things like that. He also needed a full-time nurse. I didn’t get the job. but it was great to meet him and have direct conversation with him. When it is just you and him, you sit next to him and read his words off his screen. He is a very witty man and says lots of funny things.
I remember asking him how much mathematics I would need to know in order to be his assistant. He typed out
THE…. GREEK… ALPHABET.
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Alan Winfield answered on 15 Mar 2011:
No I’m sorry to say I haven’t. I have met quite a few less famous scientists and engineers over the years though.
The funny thing is that I know quite a few people who know someone really famous. For instance a very good friend of mine (now in his 80s) corresponded with Einstein. Another friend (who was my PhD supervisor) knew Richard Feynman. But none of that really counts does it:-)
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Diana Drennan answered on 15 Mar 2011:
No. But my father is referenced in a book that has a chapter on Stephen Hawking…. (so that’s 2 degrees of separation)
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