Question: who is your fave scientist and why????

Katy Milne answered on 16 Mar 2010:

I think Leonardo da Vinci. He was fascinated by anatomy. He cut up dead bodies to understand how our bodies were built, even though the church was against it and he would have got in lots of trouble if they found out. He was also an amazing Engineer. He drew the first helicopter and all sorts of ideas for mechanisms and gadgets. Unfortunately, he was ahead of his time and a lot of the materials that he needed (high-strength steel and lightweight aluminium, for example) were not available at the time so he could not realise his work. What an imagination though. Some of his drawings were ok too.