have you worked with any famous scientists?

Question: have you worked with any famous scientists?
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Asked by paige101 to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 19 Jun 2013.
- Sam Horrell answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  I haven’t worked with any famous scientists but I have met 3 nobel prize winners since I started my PhD. I even stepped on the feet of one of them. That was a little embarrasing.
- Benjamin Hall answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  Yes. My supervisor in Germany was Professor Detlef Weigel. He’s been a director of a Max Planck Institute and is one of the most widely quoted figures in developmental biology as a whole, not just plant development.
  
  Also in Germany, Professor Christianne Nusslein-Volhardt worked at the institute I was at, she is a Nobel Prize winner.
  
  At my current institute there’s some pretty famous scientists who are Fellows of The Royal Society, which is quite a prestigous title. There’s also an MBE (Professor Cathie Martin MBE) and a Sir (Professor Sir David Hopwood) here at the John Innes Centre.
- Ed Lowe answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  Several who are very famous within science, but I’m not sure any of them are household names in the real world! You might have heard my colleague Prof. Elspeth Germany talking about crystallography on the radio a couple of weeks ago, though.
- David Briggs answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  My lab in Cancer Research UK was next to Sir Paul Nurse’s lab. He is a nobel prize winner and is currently president of the Royal Society.
- Susana Teixeira answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  Yes, I have worked in a project with a Nobel prize winner, and also with other crystallographers that are famous in the field