Well, that was a meme and a half – #scientistlyrics and #boffinsongs, thanks everyone for joining in and making it so much fun. There were some brilliant efforts and in the end it was, as is inevitable on the net, “Rickrolled” by @bmljenny at which point I felt obliged to stop, although a few more came trickling in subsequently.

I’ve compiled those that I caught yesterday (although there are many others under the #boffinsongs tag that came in after we started the meme on Sunday). If you had a great one that I didn’t list, please let me know. There were only one or two duplicates, some truly stupendous shoehorning of a scientist’s name into a lyric and some people (not listed here) who repeatedly didn’t get the meme at all and simply gave us some lyrics with a scientific theme (that’s a meme for next time, I reckon).

It looks like @LouiseJJohnson was the tweeter with the most time on her hands, having posted at least 17. @choklitfiend wasn’t far behind with 9. @rpg7twit had 8 (but special thanks to Richard for mentioning the meme on his Nature blog where several more people took up the challenge). @BioMedCentral and @JonSatriani excelled themselves too Jon’s Robbie Williams: “I just van’t Hoff feel real love, feel the home that I live in” is just a classic, while BMC’s “Who you gonna call? Gauss-busters!” got several well-warranted groans.

@LouiseJJohnson: AND AFTER AAAALL, YOU’RE MY VAN DER VAALS!
@LouiseJJohnson Maybe just the one more…. “Allen Orr Rigby”
@LouiseJJohnson Yalow Submarine
@LouiseJJohnson You Otto Know
@LouiseJJohnson By The Trivers of Babylon
@LouiseJJohnson Pavlov, will travel
@LouiseJJohnson Kandel in the wind
@LouiseJJohnson Haldane and all of the night
@LouiseJJohnson Anything you can do, Eigen do better.
@LouiseJJohnson It’s Raining Mendel
@LouiseJJohnson and the Beatles classic, “Kenny Lane”!
@LouiseJJohnson “I keep the Wolfram the door, but he calls me up” – Radiohead
@LouiseJJohnson Sagan All My Love For You
@LouiseJJohnson Gödel West
@LouiseJJohnson: Darwinner Takes It All
@LouiseJJohnson James Clerk Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
@LouiseJJohnson Sewall Wright Now

@bobmaccallum Sacks-ual healing
@bobmaccallum “The Boy with the Thornton His Side”

@skannie Charlie is my darwin, my darwin, my darwin.

Matt Brown “Planck You For The Days” (The Kinks)

@huwmjames Everybody Hz (REM)

@garwboy Gene Pitney: “24 hours from Tesla”
@garwboy Aerosmith: Love in a Space Elevator (off-topic, but good)

@choklitfiend Perutz-ing on the Ritz
@choklitfiend Paint it Black or Black in the Heart of Texas
@choklitfiend Watt’s the Story, Morning Glory?
@choklitfiend Florey D’Luna by Santana
@choklitfiend (Rosalind) ‘Franklin ‘ by Paramore
@choklitfiend King Faraday by Green Day
@choklitfiend I walk the Linus (Pauling)
@choklitfiend: Just another Crick in the Wall
@choklitfiend Anything from the His-Stone Roses?

@DrMobs “Way out Western” by James Reyne.

@enniscath Prusiner Whole Year: Third Eye Blind
@enniscath Pretty Fleming-o: Manfred Mann
@enniscath (Craig) Mello Yellow: Donovan

@ClaireAinsworth “Mad about the Boyle”, “Everybody Hertz” or “Eternal Flem(ing)”
@ClaireAinsworth @sciencebase “Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me (Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo” Oh hang on…

@ericmjohnson: “Bohr on the Bayou”

@JoergR A lazy one: Motörhead – [Nicholas] Metropolis
@JoergR The Scorpions – Dirac you like a hurricane

@BiomedCentral: Who you gonna call? Gauss-busters!
@BioMedCentral last ones, we promise! ‘Gimme gimme Bohr, Gimme Bohr, Gimme Gimme Bohr’ (Britney Spears) / Bohr than a feeling (Boston)
@BioMedCentral Watts love got to do with it? (Tina Turner) / Watts it all about? Run D.M.C)
@BioMedCentral Hooke you, I won’t do what you tell me (Rage Against the Machine)
@BioMedCentral I’m Hawking in the air.. Hawking in the moonlit sky (from The Snowman)

@rpg7twit El Zep: “We come from the land of the ice and snow/From the midnight sun where the hot Sussman Yalow”
@rpg7twit The Beatles Paperback Rita. (Rita Levi Montalcini) (could’ve just added Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, of course
@rpg7twit D’yer Meitner, Led Zeppelin
@rpg7twit The Mighty Quinn
@rpg7twit “Winner takes it (Good)all”
@rpg7twit Anything by Lawrence, or his father, Billy Bragg
@rpg7twit “I see Fred (Hoyle)” by Split Enz
@rpg7twit Roberta Flack: “The (Alan) Fersht time ever I saw your face”

@markfromhouston: Curie Eléison (traditional and Mr Mister)

@Adem Something Kinda Ohm
@Adem Watts Going On
@Adem What’s the frequency Kelvin?
@Adem Everybody Hertz

@suthers Hawking Bout My Baby
@suthers Burbridge (RIP) Over Troubled Water
@suthers Hoyle Lotta Love
@suthers Herschel ma belle sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble

@f1000: The Beatles: “(Elizabeth) Blackburn singing in the dead of night”
@f1000 The Unseelie Court: “My Bonny Light (Benjamin T.) Houseman”, UCSF
@f1000 Moody Blues: Just another (Greg) Winter’s tale
@f1000 “Should have been cloned by now”—Meatloaf

@LisaAMartin1 Off the Hooke
@LisaAMartin1 Nothing Amperes 2 U
@LisaAMartin1 Kelvin me softly?

@eroston: “…Take a sad song, and make Hans Be-e-e-the…”

@RKawabata Oasis: “And after all, you’re my van der Wa-al…”
@RKawabata Sade: “[George F] Smoot Operator”
@RKawabata The Smiths: “There is a light that Neher goes out”

@mattfromlondon: #scientistlyrics “Pasteur dutchie on the left hand side”

@sciencebase Nat King Cole: “Get your Higgs on Route 66″
@sciencebase Edsels: “Raman-ama-ding-dong”
@sciencebase Paul Robeson: “Oppenheimer, that Oppenheimer, he just keeps rollin’ along”
@sciencebase Killers: “Jenner was a friend of mine”
@sciencebase Mary Hopkins: “Bose were the days my friend…”
@sciencebase Glenn Frey: “The Edison, oh it’s on the street”
@sciencebase: The Byrds: “To everything (Turing, Turing Turing)
@sciencebase Paul McCartney: “Mullis Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea…”
@sciencebase Jason Mraz: “Please don’t Teller that I miss her”
@sciencebase ZZ Top: “Gamow all your loving”
@sciencebase: Marilyn Monroe: “I Volta be loved by you…”

@StephaniePride “Oh, oh, oh what a Bohr, what a thundering, thundering Bohr” (Flanders & Swann’s The Bestriary)
@StephaniePride “Well it’s [Heike Kamerlingh] Onnes for the money, two for the show”
@StephaniePride with a Handelian turn “Herschel feed his sheep like a shepherd .. . .”
@StephaniePride “sitting in the back seat, Huygens and a kissing with Fred” (Paul Evans and The Curls 1959)

@SamWong1: Everybody’s Hawking at me
@SamWong1 Is this the way to Avogadro?
@SamWong1 Monty Python: Isn’t it awfully nice to have a Paul
@SamWong1 Wet Wet Wet: Loewi’s All Around

@markfromhouston “Curie” (by Dr Mister)

@trancedevo Hoyle in my Shoe (Traffic – 1967)
@trancedevo Avogadro under my skin
@trancedevo Masters of the Universe by Hawkingwind

@NeilWithers: My sole entry: Johnny B. Goodenough

@JonSatriani Chuck Berry: “Johnny B. Fenn.”
@JonSatriani Goldie Lookin Chain: “Oh son, your missus is a [David] Nutter!”
@JonSatriani Eurythmics: “When you need someone to depend upon, Venter-morrow comes”
@JonSatriani Robbie Williams: “I just van’t Hoff feel real love, feel the home that I live in”
@JonSatriani Van Morrison: “From the Harvard of the street… to the Whitesides of the road”
@JonSatriani: Pink Floyd: All in all, you’re just another brick in Zewail
@JonSatriani Happy Days: “Fara-day! What a day! Rockin all week with you…”

@bmljenny Up on Cripple Crick
@bmljenny Never gonna Gibbs you up, never gonna let you down… – Rickrolled. And rest.