• Question: what inspired you to be a scientist?

    Asked by bossglider to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 25 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by bosspriyen, runninman1, monabrj99, glittergirl230, rj16, summer17, yosraandsarah, megamanx8, skips3x, 125461224p, 09elliotte, louustokes, mashal, nmahammed, applejohnmephisto, 09monaghanc.
    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      Actually, I think it’s more of a who! I wanted to be a Scientist after seeing a program with Robert Wiston (Proffessor Lord, that is), the way he put things and how he got the message accross made me want to know something that well and to be able to speak about it as well as he does. I have since met him and told him this… I’m such a geek!

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      Vee Mitchell answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      I think initially I just enjoyed science at school more than other subjects so I kept studying it, getting through GSCEs, A levels and on to a degree course. Whilst on the degree course I started to study pharmacology (the study of how a drug works on you body) and that was it – I’d found my subject and so my career. The whole subject just fascinates me.

    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      I’ve always been really interested in the brain. We think that we are in charge of our emotions and thoughts but it just takes a little knock (in the wrong place) or a few drugs to change the electrics and chemistry in our brains and we will behave in an entirely different way…what’s more scientists can predict the ways in which we will change. That always has, and always will, fascinate me.

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