• Question: what inspred u to become a scientist?

    Asked by cherry1 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 7 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by cristiano7, bob459, cherry2, , mariam236, annafrancis893, , , icecream19, boss06, manofsteel, tylerk.
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      Matthew Lam answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      My GCSE biology teacher was a great teacher and really inspired me to learn about science.

      Before I went to University, I worked in the labs at a pharmaceutical company. I was so impressed by the way the scientists worked and the technology they were using (massive robots doing things 100 times faster than a human could), I knew it was what I wanted to do!

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      Anastasia Wass answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I was just always curious about why things did what they do!
      I was always asking questions and I had some great teachers who encouraged me to go find out the answers and its that urge to know more that made me want to do science!

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      Andrea Hanvey answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I did work experience in year 11 at the environment agency and worked in their lab for a couple of days during my two weeks there. I thought working in their labs was great. When i did A level biology my teacher inspired me to become a biomedical scientist and study Biomedical science at university

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      Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 9 Mar 2014:

      Like the others i had a couple of fantastic teachers who really got me interested in science, but it was never something I thought I would end up doing as a job.

      I chose to study Music, Music Technology, Drama and Chemistry at A-level and thought I might apply to drama school, but I had a sudden change of heart after learning about biochemistry. Biochemistry is the study of how living things work at the molecular level and I found it incredible that I could use what I had learned about chemistry (which seemed pretty dull to me when I was at school) to understand how human beings work or discover why and how people get sick.

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