Action Skeptics: Famous Fictional Scientists is not, as one might at first glance think, a list containing names such as Arrowsmith’s, that have graced the pages of mainstream fiction, but rather an attempt to identify famous scientists in popular culture. In a limited but amusing set of biographies, Action Skeptics identifies Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown of Back to the Future; Dr Peter Venkman, Dr Raymond Stantz and Dr Egon Spendler of Ghostbusters; Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four; and Professor Hubert J Farnsworth of Futurama. Dr Hiram K “Brains” Hackenbaker from Thunderbirds is suggested in the comments. I wouldn’t agree that the scientists named are “famous” in the sense that Frankenstein and Dracula are iconic characters in the horror genre. Indeed, a couple of commenters have noted that (apparently) all but one of the scientist examples is in “fact” an engineer. But it is a brave attempt as well as a funny one, and I doubt anyone could come up with more famous examples of the chosen genre.