For all the T V progs etc on the subject, who do the Forum members think has been the greatest Britain over the last centuary. I have to admit, for all his flaws, my vote would still go to Winston Churchill.

Hiya,

For the Twentieth Century would have to be Churchill, IMO.

As for the Twenty First Century, too soon to tell! No clearly emerging front-runners yet!

Nineteenth Century - would find it hard for the opposite reason - too many good candidates!

Neville Chaimberlain......

As for the 21st century..well that's obvious, it's me :heyhey:

I agree with Joe here, it has to be Winston Churchill. There is a strong argument to the ends that without his courage, vision and greatness, we would not enjoy the freedoms we have today, including dodging work by posting replies to threads like this one!

Timo,

This isn't work dodging, it's broadening your experience in the workplace to encompass the views of stakeholders in your social community that you might not otherwise be exposed to.

That's my story and I am sticking with it. :)

I don't know about Briton, but the greatest Englishman of all time is undoubtedly Vivian Stanshall, and hundreds of people have agreed with me here :-

The Greatest Englishman Ever (http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/faceHair/englishmen.html)

I would probably go with either Alan Turing or Francis Crick (though with a nod of respect to Rosalind Franklin of course!)

Actually, Turing would be my number 2.

Had he survived and carried on his work on morphology, it's quite possible he would have had teh same impact on biology as he did in computing.

And that would make him an even closer Number 2....:)

I'd have quite liked to have Turing, General George Patton, Churchill and Richard Feynman around for dinner. Would have probably got rather, um, interesting. :)

Joe

how come ur all going for men? aint there any women? :confused:

I did mention Rosalind Franklin, who arguably discovered the structure of DNA before Watson and Crick though if you stretch briton to include the (then) colonies how about Dorothy Hodgkin who solved the structure of penecilin or even (courting controvesy here!) Mrs T - not everyones favourite person but you can't argue with the fact that she initiated pretty substantial political and social changes!

Fred Dibnah.....no seriously, FRED DIBNAH:thumbsup:

I vote for Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, the first computer programmer.

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html