The Greatest Bristolian You Possibly Have Never Heard Of.

[Port Said Red]

I have been catching up on some old In Our Time podcasts and I listened to one today about the Nobel Prize winning mathematician Paul Dirac. He was a contemporary of Einstein who called him a genius. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac

There were many suggestions as to whose statue could replace Colston's back when the demonstrations were rife, maybe he could be a contender?

[BigTone]

Hello

[AshtonGreat]

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

I have been catching up on some old In Our Time podcasts and I listened to one today about the Nobel Prize winning mathematician Paul Dirac. He was a contemporary of Einstein who called him a genius. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac

There were many suggestions as to whose statue could replace Colston's back when the demonstrations were rife, maybe he could be a contender?

I would agree with you but he looks a bit like Gary Penrice

[BigTone]

14 minutes ago, AshtonGreat said:

I would agree with you but he looks a bit like Gary Penrice

Throw him in the docks

[Port Said Red]

15 hours ago, AshtonGreat said:

I would agree with you but he looks a bit like Gary Penrice

 

15 hours ago, BigTone said:

Throw him in the docks

I was waiting to see if someone would ask "gas or City?" and I don't know the answer. My original thought was that he was a mathematician and we know how bad gasheads are at maths! But then I realised that his field was inventing mathematical theories to explain why mechanical things worked, in other words he made up some maths to prove a point....... I am afraid he may have been gas!