Over the weekend I did six sexy and smart guys from science and science fiction.  Seems like fair play to do the same for the women. First thing though is that I’m staying the hell away from Denise Richards as that astrophysicist in the James Bond movie, “Dr.” Christmas Jones. Laughable. Let’s get some women who can carry smart.

Gillian Anderson played Dana Scully from the X-files. Found a Youtube video with a lot of shots of her, and the worst English you can imagine, questioning her hotness! Incredible.

OK, Mythbusters isn’t exactly science, but it’s sort of close…Kari Byron. Sexy and smart though, for sure.

Abby Scuito, the hot goth chick from NCIS.  What tattoo will she choose, and where will she put it? (She should check out the science tattoos webpage on my sidebar for ideas…)

Jodie Foster playing Elanor Arroway (based on real-life SETI scientist Jill Tarter), in Contact:

Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Klingon wedding bonus goodness. (Star Trek has some other good candidates in 7 of 9, Bellona, etc.).

Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the Scoobies very own computer scientist, until she took her smarts and applied them to learning witchcraft. I confess, I like the “dark Willow” look and anything set to Evanescence.

I’m kind of pleasantly surprised (occasionally horrified) by all the amateur music videos/star tributes on Youtube.

Now, I didn’t have much in the way of real-life scientists on this list. You make this kind of list, it should be celebrities or quasi-celebrities. There are some sexy scientists I run into at astronomy meetings, but I’m not going to go all stalkerish and dig up photos off of Facebook or their homepages. Ick. And it generally takes years to get a PhD and do work worth recognition and our society tends to judge younger women as sexy (although there are certainly more mature women who are very hot, too). However, the brain is the ultimate sex organ, and I like women who know how to stimulate mine by using theirs.

I’m quite willing to believe I’ve missed some famous and sexy women scientists, perhaps from fields I’m less familiar with. Anyone have suggestions?

Originally published at Mike Brotherton: SF Writer. You can comment here or there.

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