Scully was recruited by the FBI and would go on to lead a distinguished career before being assigned to the X-Files in. "These films hold mirrors up to our conceptualization of self, and then distort what we see," he says. The Shape of Water and Black Panther are both wonderful science-themed films. However, he says that more work needs to be done, noting, "but this could be the first observation we've made which reveals an alien biosphere and, what do you know, it's on the closest planet to home in the entire cosmos." Stars: The pandemic has forced scientists everywhere to rethink in-person conferences, but some researchers have already been urging changes. Quite often, there isn't more to examine than rotten flesh or mere bones. This documentary is a collection of archival clips from the dawning of the Atomic Age. | Josephine Hutchinson, Movie/Fictional Scientist's Field: Theoretical Physics, Specialty and/or their research: Teleportation, Notable achievements: Telepod (instantaneous teleportation devices). Scientists have found an exciting potential sign of alien life detected on the inhospitable planet Venus. Stars: Ron Howard Ed Harris, Jessica Chastain,

Between 1998 and 2017, Jurassic Park was referenced 21 times in Nature News, from “Jurassic Park got it right” in an article about how theropod dinosaurs such as velociraptors used their tails, to “Say goodbye to Jurassic Park” in a discussion about the difficulty of restoring species that have been extinct for more than a few thousand years. Daniel Richter, Votes: The movie's lavishly depicted workings of the human body garnered two Academy Awards and three additional nominations—and got James Giordano thinking about medicine at the tiniest scale. This 1985 sci-fi comedy stars Val Kilmer as a science whiz kid who develops a chemical laser. | Dick York, R Henry Travers, Taraji P. Henson,

Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi. Alejandro Amenábar ", This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara. Movie/Fictional Scientist's Field: Research Chemist/Chemistry Teacher/Company Founder/Narcotics Producer, Specialty and/or their research: Early career: Radiography, Later: Narcotics Production, Notable achievements: Early Career: Proton radiography (Nobel Prize), Gray Matter Technologies Founder. 60 min The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. "That's the mark of a film that makes a difference. Stars: Steven Spielberg’s third sci-fi blockbuster – after Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. There isn't any serious science, but the film, featuring a young Sandra Bullock, is silly and sweet and great fun.

Navy Destroyer Spends Record 208 Days at Sea, Navy Names Carrier After Black Sailor Doris Miller, Get the Right Multitool for the Right Situation. 114 min Brief Biography/Additional Information: After losing his family and everyone he ever knew in the zombie apocalypse, Robert is left alone with his trusty canine partner, and family pet, Samantha. Spencer Tracy,

Are you a fan of the history channel show, The Curse of Oak Island? The film strikes a chord with researchers not for its scientific fidelity—its tech is more absurd than accurate—but, rather, because it boldly imagines a trajectory of the future. Andrew Callaway, Biography, Drama, History. Stars: The best movies of 2019 according to top awards. | | His 'monster' obsessively pursues his family, kills his brother and wife and eventually leads to Victor's own demise at the North Pole.
This is the company the other main characters in Futurama work for.

Real scientists can be the harshest critics of science fiction. Brief Biography/Additional Information: The Professor is the very embodiment of the 'mad' scientist and is the proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service. Director: There is a lot more science to this film than any other on this list, with the exception of "The Atomic Cafe.".

Dr. Helmenstine holds a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and is a science writer, educator, and consultant.

How cool to find it on Venus." George Eads,
Denis Villeneuve The Manhattan Project.

Director: Scully was recruited by the FBI and would go on to lead a distinguished career before being assigned to the X-Files in 1992. We polled dozens of scientists and engineers to discover the sci-fi movies they love. Christopher Plummer, Votes: David Carroll, director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University, says that the movie's minuscule technology, although physically impossible, is echoed in his current work. Now, the world will be turning to Venus to look for further existence of alien life. | | It lost to My Fair Lady. An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Bryan Brown, Director: | Wells novel about a violent Martian invasion was particularly jarring because of the timing of its debut—namely, when World War II weaponeering prowess and the threat of nuclear attack were very much part of the national consciousness. $24.72M, PG Will This Compact Reactor Finally Deliver Fusion? During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. The character appears in the original film and the fourth and fifth installments of the series. 7,550 He ranges from a power-hungry, wealthy business magnate to ingenious engineer and megalomaniacal genius. Scientists of the real-life Manhattan Project. Matthew McConaughey, Anita Louise, However, that has now changed, thanks to the findings of phosphene.

Movie/Fictional Scientist's Field: Forensic Sciences/Medical Sciences/Physics, Specialty and/or their research: Forensic Sciences and Specialist Top Secret Research for the FBI, Notable achievements: She is most noted for her part played in the FBI's highly secret X Files Project into supernatural and alien activities, with her partner Fox Mulder. Series following an elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts as they work their cases in Las Vegas. $91.13M, TV-PG After succeeding in his plan to create life his invention becomes his undoing. | Actor(s) or Actress(s): Various including Gene Hackman (1970's to 1980's) and Michael Rosenbaum in Smallville. Movie/Fictional Scientist's Field: Anatomist/Biomechanics, Specialty and/or their research: Resurrection of the deceased/Creating life, Notable achievements: Creating and resurrecting a composite cadaver, Actor(s) or Actress(s): Various throughout history. Jim Parsons, Albert Lewin 1,461,787 Director: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. | | This list of 15 contains some of the 'usual suspects' but we've also thrown in some lesser known 'curve balls', just to mix things up a bit. Unbeknownst to Wayne, however, the machine actually works and his children accidentally shrink themselves. Jessica Chastain, Physics World represents a key part of IOP Publishing's mission to communicate world-class research and innovation to the widest possible audience. Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. Director: Brendan Fleming, G 670,749 Brief Biography/Additional Information: Rotwang is a diabolical mad-scientist who locks himself away in his underground lab building a fembot in the image of his long-lost wife. Movies that deal directly with science can be hard to come by. Movie/Fictional Scientist's Field: Biotechnologist/Geneticist, Specialty and/or their research: Advanced Genetic Engineering, Notable achievements: Headed the team that was able to resurrect dinosaurs and other extinct species from ancient DNA and splicing with extant organism DNA. Christopher Nolan Brief Biography/Additional Information: Dr. Strangelove's character is ostensibly based on the real-life Nazi scientists relocated to the United States after WW2 during "Operation Paperclip". T.J. Thyne, Passed Julie Harris, Kristen Wiig, | Gross: Carroll Ballard Movie/Fictional Scientist's Field: Chemistry/Pharmaceuticals, Specialty and/or their research: Chemistry, Notable achievements: Best known for his development of a serum that accidentally manifests his 'evil' alter-ego, Actor(s) or Actress(s): Various from John Barrymore in 1920 to Russell Crowe. After a lot of trial and error and a lot of exploded apples, he resigns himself that the machine will not work as intended. Billy West, Both the Alien queen and clone Ripley shared some DNA and physiological traits and, therefore, were hybrids of both species albeit to varying degrees. Dr. Strangelove is best known as a black comedy, with the actor and comedian Peter Sellers playing three of the lead roles. Kaley Cuoco, Director: Emmett would go on to lead a mainly solitary life as a prolific inventor and "student of all sciences". Robert Zemeckis But we did it anyway.