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Question: what made you want to become a scientist
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Erin Pallott answered on 15 Feb 2024:
I liked science in school, and I liked finding answers to questions. If I didn’t know something, I loved reading books to find out!
I particularly loved books about diseases and animals, and I would always tell people fun facts I read.
As a scientist, I get to answer the questions people have, and add to human knowledge.
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Kirsty Ross answered on 15 Feb 2024:
I loved finding out the answer to things, and discovering new things. It’s why I chose science over medicine.
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Clara Ferreira answered on 15 Feb 2024:
I never thought about actually being a scientist, it was something that just came into my life without me even realizing – I am very curious and I like to know everything to the last detail.
After realizing that I am a scientist (even without realizing it), my priority is to help people – I work in the cancer area and I like to think that I help people to live longer and better; finding hope for them.
That probably explains that the most rewarding part of my job is when I am with patients and offer them a better solution that makes them live better and for longer – the way that they react is absolutely amazing and it keeps me going. -
Viviene Dela Cruz answered on 16 Feb 2024:
I actually aimed to be an engineer (which I am) but ended up to also be a scientist–didn’t know I could do both! I wanted to have more skills while I was at uni so that finding jobs would be less difficult. I looked for internships and placement years and one of the job offers was to be a scientist for high energy lasers at the UK’s laser facility and I took it! I’ve been a scientist then, even before I finished uni 🙂 It was difficult but also so much fun!
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Martin McCoustra answered on 19 Feb 2024:
I enjyoed science at primary school and always wanted to find out more about how things worked. By the time, I was at high school, I realised that I was pretty good at maths, physics and chemistry and livnig not too far from an oil refinery could see that there were jobs there. So I went to university to study chemistry and while they realised I enjoyed finding out stuff too much to want to work in industry. So I did my research degree and eventually became an academic.
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Alexander De Bruin answered on 20 Feb 2024:
At first because I was curious in the world, then because I was naturally fairly good at it, and now it’s because of the difference I can make to the big challenges facing our society
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Ai-Lan Lee answered on 6 Mar 2024:
I enjoyed science as soon as I started learning it in school. I immediately made my dad buy me a Chemistry set and loved playing around with it! It is a beautiful balance between creativity as well as being inquisitive: asking the right questions and designing experiments to answer them.
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Kirsty Lindsay answered on 27 Jun 2024:
It happened but accident because I was bored with my old job and wanted a new challenge 🙂
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Konstantina Kanari answered on 22 Jul 2024:
I as always curious about how things worked and wanted to know everything!
Comments
Paul commented on :
I get to be the annoying person in the room who always asks: “Why?”..
Barbara commented on :
I was worried about not being creative enough to be an artist, and wanted to contribute to the progression of biomedical sciences, however big or small my contribution may be.
Michael C commented on :
I wanted to go into medicine but realised on an Open Day visit to a university that I have a phobia of blood, but realised that I really liked science still and could help people with my research in other ways. Now I am working on a project to try and discover novel antibiotics from extreme environments and not a drop of blood in sight 🙂