Angela Merkel is a pretty influential chemist , just not in the field of chemistry if you want an oddball example <| sep |> 2 nd Request IGN Y Deposited flabebe female level 14 Requesting Dusclops GTS Message nandawin <| sep |> I think people are entitled to think whatever they want of themselves . I ' m fine with that . I just dont think I would take them too seriously , nor would I accept that they were actual Romanians in formal sense . Its like people who think theyre barely 1 % less Viking than actual 9 thcentury Vikings cos they can link back to somewhere vaguely Vikingly . Theyre welcome to imagine that . but I dont think theyre actual Vikings . My family , mostly Scottish on Mums side , insist that our clan is Mcleod of Lewis , whos clan seat is Dunvegan Castle in Skye . I used to read up on our clan when I was kid . As and adult with an interest in history and science I look at our family tree and view nothing but a sea of lowland Scots fishermen in it . If theres a link Mcleod then its several centuries back and to claim it as ' our clan ' is romantacised crap .