TALE OF THE TAPE

NICKI MINAJ

Age: 38 Twitter followers: 22,600,000 Specialty: Rap Place of birth: Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago Singles released: 117 and counting Biggest Billboard hit: Super Bass Influenced by: Lil Wayne, Foxy Brown and Jay-Z Also known as: Barbie, Chun-Li

CHRISTOPHER WHITTY

Age: 55 Twitter followers: 356,000 Specialty: Epidemiology Place of birth: Gloucester, UK Academic papers published: 267 Most cited paper: Overdiagnosis of malaria in Tanzania Influenced by: Time spent in northern Nigeria as a child Also known as: Professor Gloom