• Question: What is the best thing you have done in science to help other people.

    Asked by 682bcme26 to Andy, Chris, Harriet, Jess, Nikki on 10 Mar 2016.
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      andy chapman answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I would say it is the outreach I have done in schools. This directly made people happy and maybe even inspired some brilliant young minds like yours to peruse a career in science. It is much harder to be sure I have had any great impact via research, I have definitely tried to do that. I was working in a company trying to make plastics (which we mostly make out of resources buried at the bottom of the ocean that took millions of years to make) out of carbon dioxide (which there seems to be too much of and is a bad thing for the world)

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      Harriet Reid answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I hope that lots of people will benefit from my research eventually, but it takes a long time for new science to become new medicines or technology for everyone.

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      Christopher Blanford answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Hi there

      I like Andy’s answer, and feel the same.

      I hope my teaching is making a difference. I hope that my research gives us more efficient portable energy sources, greener chemical production, and safer drug delivery. We scientists always look far into the future, and we’re willing to take risks on what we think will make the world better for all of us.

      Chris

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      Nikki D'Arcy answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I think what I am doing now will really help other people. Discovering a new antibiotic could help cure lots of people who get sick and maybe save lives. I have also worked to develop some techniques to diagnose diseases like tuberculosis which definitely contributed to helping other people. thanks for the question!

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      Jessica Groppi answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      Hi!

      I agree with the guys, teaching has been the most helpful thing I’ve done up until now. I hope to help people also with my research in the future.

      Jess.

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