# Sexiest Scientist Ever?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 12, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488 "2003-02-12T01:26:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/1 "2003-02-12T01:26:10Z")
I’ve got to go with Jane Goodall. She’s getting up there in years, but she still looks damned good. That long grey hair is just MMM!
What do you all think?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/2 "2003-02-12T01:32:54Z")
**Cal Meacham** , of course! Why do you think I took his name?
Oh, you mean _real-life_ scientists?
How abut Roy Chapman ndrews – some say he was the model for Indiana Jones. In all the pictures he’s wearing the same hat and leather jacket, and he tooled all over Asia. I’m not sure he ever got a degree, but he was certainly an acting paleontologist.
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### Author:  [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/3 "2003-02-12T01:50:45Z")
[Mary Ellen Weber](http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/weber.html)
She’s hot AND she’s been in space. Can’t top that. Did Cecil ever definitively answer that question about sex in zero g?
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/4 "2003-02-12T01:56:58Z")
Me.
Terminus Est, Ph. D.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/5 "2003-02-12T02:10:47Z")
If you’re going to vote for yourself, at least provide a pic. 😃
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/6 "2003-02-12T02:11:50Z")
Well, me, of course.
I mean, doesn’t everyone go for forest ecologists?
Think of the adventure. The thrill of the outdoors. The strength of a body that’s scaled many heights and cleared many trails. The irresistible fragrance of insect repellent hanging softly in the humid midsummer air. The ecstasy of skin rent to tatters by various thorny plants. The incomparable fascination of poison ivy. The sensuality that is stinging nettle. The unbridled erotic pleasure of being slowly, gently, achingly covered in dead salamander-infused antifreeze as you clear your beetle traps.
So, OK. Maybe not me.
But you can’t say I don’t try.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/7 "2003-02-12T02:39:22Z")
What, you won’t take the word of the Sexiest Scientist Ever? Trust me, I’ve given the matter intense scrutiny there is really only one possible conclusion. 😉
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/8 "2003-02-12T02:44:35Z")
**Terminus Est** , you’re finished here.
(Sorry–I couldn’t resist.)
Look–are you a guy or a gal? I’d assume that the “Sexiest Scientist Ever” competition has a men’s and a women’s division, right?
I’m a chick. If you’ve also got the 2 X chromosome thing going on, we might have to duke it out. Otherwise, I’d say there’s no real competition here. 🙂
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/9 "2003-02-12T02:45:04Z")
Richard Feynman. Ever since I saw a documentary about him in the 80s I’ve thought he was totally sexy 🙂
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### Author:  [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/10 "2003-02-12T02:46:20Z")
I vote for [myself](http://www.sulross.edu/~geology/jcwguad.jpg). Checkin’ out some Limestone–now is that sexy, or what?
Don’t answer that.
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### Author:  [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/11 "2003-02-12T02:47:43Z")
Oliver Sachs. Sexy in a completely adorable kind of way.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/12 "2003-02-12T02:57:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Terminus Est \*
> \*\*What, you won’t take the word of the Sexiest Scientist Ever? \*\*
Now, now. We both know that science is strongly dependent on the peer-review process.
And I can totally see that, **OpalCat**. I might be biased, since I think I look a little bit like Feynman. Really.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/13 "2003-02-12T03:14:08Z")
**Scribble** : No need to duke it out; I’m an XY-type myself. We may need to perform some mutual observation and experimentation, purely for the sake of Science, you understand.
I’m the Sexiest Scientist Ever! I have no peers. Except maybe **Scribble**.
Oh, all right. I look like this guy: 🆒
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### Author:  [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/14 "2003-02-12T03:39:30Z")
Scribble may have my vote… it depends on how she looks when she blushes…
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/15 "2003-02-12T03:41:37Z")
> [@](#):
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> Oh, all right. I look like this guy: 8)
Orange, round, and disembodied? With no nose?
Well, the observational study you describe could be difficult to carry out, considering that you’re at Cornell and I’m in the Midwest.
Do you think we could get NSF funding for travel expenses?
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/16 "2003-02-12T03:45:25Z")
Oh, **Curious**.
What do you mean, I _may_ have your vote?! You mean you don’t like dead salamander-infused antifreeze?!
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### Author:  [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/17 "2003-02-12T03:47:22Z")
Depends on it’s alcohol content 😉
_laughs runnign away_
of COURSE you have my vote… there. happy? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/18 "2003-02-12T04:00:09Z")
🆒 The shades. It’s all about the shades.
I’m sure we can scam, er, get funding from the NSF for a travel grant. We can meet halfway. How Mid is your West, anyway?
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### Author:  [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/19 "2003-02-12T04:27:36Z")
Pierre Curie–as played by Walter Pidgeon.
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### Author:  [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-scientist-ever/154488/20 "2003-02-12T04:40:57Z")
Nicest computer designer I know.[Here.](http://www.ukraine-affair.com/en/gallery/girl.asp?id=653)
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