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What does a scientist look like?

This article explores the various stereotypes associated with scientists and challenges them by presenting examples of scientists from different fields and backgrounds. It emphasizes that anyone can be a scientist, regardless of their appearance or background.

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What does a scientist look like?

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  1. What does a scientist look like?

  2. Scientist? • What leads you to believe that this man may be a scientist?

  3. Scientist? • Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor

  4. Scientist? • Sponge Bob Square Pants • Burger Flipper

  5. Scientist? • Stephen Hillenburg Marine Biologist • Sponge Bob’s Creator

  6. Scientist? • Physics: Engineer for Boeing-designing fighter jets • Bill Nye The Science Guy: Television show that combines science and FUN! • "Leave the world better than you found it. Sometimes you gotta pick up somebody else's trash."

  7. Scientist? • Dr. Bruce Jackson • Co-founder of the African-American DNA Roots Project.

  8. Scientist? • Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist (1912 - 1997) • Studied sickle cell anemia. She believed that "even the most sophisticated and seemingly remote basic nuclear physics research has implications beneficial to human welfare."

  9. Scientist? • Anna McGowan • A scientist at NASA • She leads a research group that is developing material to allow airplane wings to repair themselves

  10. Scientist? • Stephen Hawking • Motor neurone disease • Uses a motorized wheelchair, and a computerized speech-synthesizer • Developed several theories about the nature and origins of our universe

  11. Scientist? • Ellen Ochoa • Astronaut – First Hispanic-American Woman in Space

  12. Scientist? • Albert Einstein • Asperger’s Syndrome (a type of autism) • Theory of Relativity

  13. Scientist? • Dr. Mae Jemison, degree in chemical engineering and Doctor of Medicine • First African-American woman to enter space • Grew up in Chicago!

  14. Scientist? • Dian Fossey as a young adult.

  15. Scientist? • Dian Fossey as an adult. • Field researcher and anthropologist. • Groundbreaking work with Mountain Gorillas of Africa.

  16. Anyone Can Be a Scientist! • Will it be you?? Created by: E. Kovac, 2004

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