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Asked by anon-255021 to Summer, Olivia, Alessandro, Sudeep, Rachel on 19 May 2020. This question was also asked by anon-255513, anon-255079, anon-257991.
Question: What inspired you too become a scientist?
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Summer Rosonovski answered on 19 May 2020:
Growing up my favourite lessons at school were all hands on: Music, P.E, and Science. My mum and dad used to home experiments with me and my sister when we were children and I loved that we spent time together doing this and how messy we got…..although my mum was not happy when one exploded all over the living room….after that we were moved outside. As I grew older my favourite tv shows were all science based (doctors, nurses, forensics, scientists) and I wanted to be like them. The more I began to learn about biology and chemistry the more I realsied I didn’t know and that no body in the world knows. I find this unknown really exciting and that I can start to unravel the worlds mysteries is amazing!!
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Olivia Edwards answered on 8 Jun 2020:
I have always wanted to have a career which helped people who were sick. At school I really loved Biology and Chemistry and so I wanted to find a career where I could use these subjects to help. Being a scientist is great because you get to discover a lot of new facts about diseases which weren’t known before, and this can help new medicines to be discovered! Its also really fun to learn lots of different experiments, and each day is always different 🙂
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anon-255021 commented on :
Thank you for your response it was very inspiring!
Laura commented on :
I think I’ve always had a natural attraction to science, but my interest really kicked off when my grandparents got me a book about scientific discoveries for my birthday! I found it so interesting, especially the parts about how we’ve learned about the human body. From there, I got really interested in human anatomy and really wanted to be doctor for a number of years. But then my A-level biology teacher introduced us to the molecules of life, like DNA and proteins – from there, I was hooked on Biochemistry! So much that I went on to study it at university. During this time, I learned about inspirational biochemists and their essential work, like Dorothy Hodgkin and her discovery of insulin, to Rosalind Franklin and her contributions towards understanding DNA structure. It was all very inspiring stuff… and not to mention all the amazing progressions that have been made in the years since to gain a deeper understanding of how humans work!