William Bialek is my favorite scientific speaker (he has some good ones on youtube). His depth in such a wide range of sciences and topics is remarkable. I thi

William Bialek is my favorite scientific speaker (he has some good ones on youtube). His depth in such a wide range of sciences and topics is remarkable. I think Thomas Gregor has some of the most precise biological measurements at the single molecular level. The combination of the theory and precision measurements in studying the fly embryo by these people have resulted in very unique and creative progress in the field. From what I hear when they first started this work, the old-school developmental biologists thought what they were doing was absurd. They have successfully put a much more quantitative perspective back into biology.