Here are the choices:
- Niels Bohr, 1922 Nobel Physics Prize winner
- Francs Crick, 1962 Nobel Prize winner
- Al Gore, who: once made a comment about the "extra-chromosome right wing" during Down Syndrome Awareness Month, labeled automobiles as "a mortal threat to the security of every nation," and called for the elimination of the internal combustion engine.
- Stephen Hawking, leading physicist, winner of the Albert Einstein award and Wolf Prize for physics, and Lucasian professor at the University of Cambridge (a position once held by Isaac Newton)
- Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Chemistry Prize winner and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- John Updike, writer and winner of the National Book Award, O.Henry Award, William Dean Howells medal and the Pulitzer Prize
If you know the correct answer, you may want to write John Rennie, Editor-in-chief, Scientific American, 415 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10017-1111, and ask him to explain the following Scientific American postcard solicitation.
