• Question: What made you decide to choose the field you are currenlty in?

    Asked by yugisha to Alan, Caspar, Diana, Murray, Sarah on 21 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
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      Sarah Thomas answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Ok well I ended up doing a degree in Chemistry because I really liked biology and chemistry in school and I thought it would be a good job. Then while I was studying, I lost someone I was really close to to cancer, the chemo made her really weak and she couldn’t fight the cancer anymore. I felt really helpless and I decided that I would use my degree in chemistry to get into Cancer Research. I wanted to help people and do something good.

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      Alan Winfield answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      In fact I already answered 2 very similar questions so I hope you don’t mind me pointing you to my previous answers.

      The 1st about how I became a scientist: http://ias.im/35.240

      And the 2nd about how I got into robotics here: http://ias.im/35.300

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      Murray Collins answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hi – I was always really interested in the natural world, looking at animals and plants near my home and then realised that this kind of thing was what professional scientists did for their jobs all over the world. That made me think it would be a great line of work to be in 🙂

    • Photo: Caspar Addyman

      Caspar Addyman answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hopefully this link answers your question http://ias.im/35.240

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