Almost one million school children think Professor Green is a
scientist, says study Almost one million school children aged
five to 16 think rapper Professor Green is a scientist,
according to research. Children are more familiar with Mark
Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook (68% correctly identified
him), than physicist Albert Einstein who discovered the theory
of relativity (only 45% correctly identified him), the poll by
Haier home appliances reveals. Although one in five children
(19%) know and love TV Professor Brian Cox, a large proportion
are unable to identify a number of significant, heavyweight
names from the world of science and innovation, including
Charles Darwin (63% unable to identify), Louis Pasteur (75%),
Thomas Edison (62%) and Isaac Newton (61%). Despite spending an
average 17 hours and 34 minutes in front a TV screen every week,
almost half (45%) do not know that John Logie Baird invented the
television. In fact, a quarter of eight-year-olds think David
Cameron invented it (23.83%). Other