• Question: what made you to be scientist and some interesting facts of why u like it thanks luke

    Asked by 07hubberl to Alastair, Emma, Hywel, Keith, Vicki on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Alastair Sloan

      Alastair Sloan answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I was always interested in the world around me and wanted to know how living things worked. I like it because I’m always amazed by the complexity of the human body and never get tired of finding out why things happen, no one day is the same, I get to travel to some great places and share my work with colleagues all over the world and finally my work will make a difference to patients and improve their care

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      Keith Brain answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I tried doing science and found that I enjoyed it, so I’ve kept on doing it. I like how you can predict the future (for example, we can predict when the next solar eclipse will happen), how so much of the world can be explained in simple mathematical ways (such as amount of water left in a saucepan after any given time if we heat it at any particular rate), and how people have used scientific methods to help other people (for example, by designing new medicines).

    • Photo: Vicki Stevenson

      Vicki Stevenson answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi Luke
      I didn’t always want to be a scientist – probably because I didn’t really know what one was! Originally I wanted to be an author then I wanted to be a vet.

      When I was 16 I went to an open day at an engineering company which made mining equipment – they had developed equipment where all the copper wire was replaced with fibre optic cables to reduce the chance of sparks setting off an explosion underground. When I realised that fibre optics could save lives I decided I wanted to study laser physics and optoelectronics (which I did) and everything I’ve done has run from there.

      Interesting fact (I think anyway!) – The moons surface temperature changes from -233oC where it’s dark to 123oC where it’s light! In the UK we complain when we go from 25oC in the summer to -3oC in the winter!

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