• Question: what made you want to be a scientist??

    Asked by elliexoxo to Rachel, Nicholas, Kate, Eva, David on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by 443rhed26, Zoe, xxx_Charlotte_xxx, x_sassy_scientist_x, Amrita, irawrtomlinson (Lana), oleg, Ernest Rutherford.
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      Rachel McMullan answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Hi
      I enjoyed science at school and I was quite good at it so I decided to do science degree at uni. After that I had lots of questions about the stuff I’d learnt and the only way to get any answers to them was to become a scientist

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      David Nunan answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Hi Ellie, thanks for question.

      I got into sport and exercise when I was young and started to want to know more about my body and how it was responding. This meant that I had to understand the human body, biology and physiology as well as nutrition. So I kind of fell in to science out of my own interest in getting better at my sport.

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      Nicholas Pearce answered on 12 Nov 2015:

      Hi Ellie,

      I liked learning all about science in school, they way someone could have an idea ten try to test it by coming up with an experiment to know if it was true or not. In particular I thought space was fascinating, but then I studied chemistry and found out all about the atomic world, and just had to become a chemist.
      Do you think you will want to be a scientist when you’re older?

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