Fastest scientist and fastest engineer?

Daniel Lincoln either IS or IS ON HIS WAY to becoming a doctor of medicine, which is a scientist. He's pretty fast.

Confused Office Worker (COW) wrote:

Daniel Lincoln either IS or IS ON HIS WAY to becoming a doctor of medicine, which is a scientist. He's pretty fast.

was pretty fast, lots of former great runners went on to be great scientists, engineers etc.

alan turing was a v good marathoner

alan turing was a v good marathoner

Aren't most runners scientists or engineers?

MDs aren't scientists.

Yeah, science is not perfectly defined

Lets go with these two:

Fastest formal scientist (math or cs)

Fastest engineer, who I believe is Meucci?

We are scientists wrote:

Yeah, science is not perfectly defined

Lets go with these two:

Fastest formal scientist (math or cs)

Fastest engineer, who I believe is Meucci?

Physics, chem, and bio aren't science?

A mathematician is not a scientist and a computer "scientist" is most definitely not a scientist. CS is an admirable profession but is isn't in anyway a science. Real science is empirical science like physics, chemistry, biology and their various sub-disciplines like neuroscience.

We are scientists wrote:

Yeah, science is not perfectly defined

Lets go with these two:

Fastest formal scientist (math or cs)

Fastest engineer, who I believe is Meucci?

They are science but not formal science. But formal science isn't science.

kdjd wrote:

We are scientists wrote:

Yeah, science is not perfectly defined

Lets go with these two:

Fastest formal scientist (math or cs)

Fastest engineer, who I believe is Meucci?

Physics, chem, and bio aren't science?

Roger Bannister was a neuroscientist and was the fastest miler in the world in his day with his 3:59.4 and later 3:58.8(?) beating Landy.

Tim Hacker does cancer research now, he was pretty beastly back in the day.

1500m 3:34.66 Koblenz (GER) 13.08.1987

Mile 3:55.19 New York (USA) 22.07.1989

3000m 7:43.21 Stockholm (SWE) 03.07.1989

3000m ind. 8:06.11 Madison (USA) 29.01.2000

5000m 13:37.79 Walnut (USA) 19.04.1998

I believe that Andy Baddely studied aerospace engineering at Cambridge.

Lets just forget about science and just focus on searching the fastest engineer

Im gonna check out those names you wrote to see if I can find confirmation that they studied engineering

So the list of fastest engineers/distance runners would be (olympic distances only):

800 1:46 Baddeley

1500 3:34 Baddeley

5000 13:19 Meucci

10000 27:32 Meucci

Marathon 2:13:49 Meucci

See if you can find someone faster of if this is the definitive list

We could do a women list also if someone has info

Think Molly Pritz might be a geologist.

really wrote:

alan turing was a v good marathoner

Good call. I agree, but he might not get as much love here for 'only' a 2:45.

Still, he has an interesting marathon time-to-science contribution ratio.

I'm into the history of the founding fathers of algorithms and computer science, and since I'll never be that good of a computer scientist/engineer, I'm trying to beat his marathon time.

How about Erica Larson for the ladies?

(OT qualifier, but the multiple Pikes Peak marathon/ascent wins seem more impressive to me)