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Originally Posted by Taylor
To piggyback on what Jane said, I'd like to see a mixture of mainstream entertainment celebrities and science celebrities (although it could be argued that we've had that for years with Dr. Flowers, Mr. Kamen, and Mr. Lavery).
Possible crossover celebs would be Paul Sr. and Paul Jr., the Mythbusters (I know, Kari's done VEX and Grant's done FRC), Chris Hardwick, Conan O'Brien, Peyton Manning (since it's obviously a football game and he's not doing much these days anyway), Oprah Winfrey, Mike Rowe.
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I think it's interesting that almost all of these people (Bill Nye and Grant Imahara being exceptions), do not have STEM degrees and were never practicing engineers or scientists. (Not to diminish their skills in any way, Adam Savage's
Maltese Falcon TED Talk is quite possibly my favorite one, Jamie Hyneman's work speaks for itself, and while OCC's choppers are not my thing they are certainly impressive.)
Which leads me to an interesting question: Are there any other STEM celebrities that actually have education and have subsequently worked in their fields? There are other engineers and scientists that are celebrities to me, but I know I'm a dork so they would probably go unnoticed by most.