#mbtiscience

MBTI & Science & Youtube Mithuna Yoganathan: INFP

“Mithuna Yoganathan is a quantum physicist who specializes in quantum computing, and runs the successful YouTube channel Looking Glass Universe.”

MBTI:

I’m listening to this bio of Nikola Tesla and wondering where the fuck people get the idea that he was an INTJ

MBTI & Science Katalin Karikó: INTP

“Katalin Karikó (born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms. (…)

Since 2013, she has been a senior vice president at BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. (…)

The work and research of Karikó has contributed to BioNTech’s effort to create immune cells that produce vaccine antigens — 

her research revealed that the antiviral response from mRNA gave their cancer vaccines an extra boost in defense against tumors.

In 2020, Karikó's and Weissman's technology was used within a vaccine for COVID-19 that was produced jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech.

The British ethologist Richard Dawkins, as well as the Canadian stem cell biologist Derrick Rossi, who helped found Moderna, have called for these two to receive a Nobel Prize.”

MBTI & Scientists Andrew Huberman: ENTJ

“Andrew D. Huberman (born September 26, 1975, in Palo Alto, California) is an American neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

He has made numerous contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair.

A large amount of that work focused on the visual system, including the mechanisms that control light-mediated activation of the circadian and autonomic arousal centers in the brain, as well as the brain control over conscious vision or sight.”

MBTI & Science Lisa Feldman Barrett: ENTJ

“Lisa Feldman Barrett (born c. 1963) is a university distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science

She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review (…)

During her graduate training, Barrett developed the initial insights for her current theory of constructed emotion.

She highlights differences in emotions between different cultures, and says that

emotions "are not triggered; you create them. They emerge as a combination of the physical properties of your body, a flexible brain that wires itself to whatever environment it develops in, and your culture and upbringing, which provide that environment."”

MBTI & Science David Graeber: INTP

“David Rolfe Graeber (February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist, and author known for his books Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018).

He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. (…)

Graeber was a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is sometimes credited with having coined the slogan, "We are the 99 percent".”

MBTI & Scientists Jocelyn Bell Burnell: INTP

“Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, co-discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.

She was credited with "one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century".

The discovery was recognised by the award of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, but despite the fact that she was the first to observe the pulsars, Bell was not one of the recipients of the prize.

The paper announcing the discovery of pulsars had five authors. Bell's thesis supervisor Antony Hewish was listed first, Bell second.

Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize, along with the astronomer Martin Ryle. 

Many prominent astronomers criticised Bell's omission, including Sir Fred Hoyle.”