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   Two muppets named top scientists   
   Sunday, September 5, 2004 Posted: 7:53 PM EDT (2353 GMT)   
      
      
   EXETER, England (Reuters) -- Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant   
   Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of "X Files" fame and Star   
   Trek's Mr. Spock to be voted Britain's favorite screen scientists on   
   Monday.   
      
   They beat their closest rival by a margin of 2 to 1 and won 33 percent of   
   the 43,000 votes cast in an Internet poll.   
      
   Spock came in a distance second with 15 percent followed by The Doctor,   
   from Dr Who, who garnered 13 percent. Scully, the only woman in the poll,   
   came in sixth.   
      
   "They are accessible, humorous and occasionally blow each other up," said   
   Roland Jackson, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science   
   (BA).   
      
   The balding, white-coated Honeydew and flame-haired, bulging-eyed Beaker   
   created an array of crazy gadgets on the popular television show.   
      
   "They're the kind of scientists you would like to be but never quite dared   
   to," said Alan Slater, a scientist at the University of Exeter in   
   southwestern England.   
      
   The poll, sponsored by the BA and the BBC cult television website gave the   
   public five weeks to choose their favorite scientist from a shortlist of 10   
   that included Dr. Evil from the film "Austin Powers," Dr. Frankenstein,   
   Frank N. Furter, of the "Rocky Horror Show Picture Show," Dr. Emmett Brown,   
   of the film "Back to the Future" and Q of James Bond fame.   
      
   Results of the poll were announced at the start of the week-long BA science   
   conference here.   
      
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