• Question: what's your greatest accomplishment as a chemist?

    Asked by anon-227008 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 9 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-226611.
    • Photo: Harry Wilkinson

      Harry Wilkinson answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      The first time I saw my name on an academic paper was certainly a highlight! It was based on the work that I did during my Masters project and it was really nice to know that the work I did had been accepted by the scientific community as a whole!

    • Photo: Emily Sparkes

      Emily Sparkes answered on 10 Nov 2019:

      I improved the yield of my protein by 17,300% which I was very very proud of. It’s made my job and the jobs of the researchers who work on the same project after me so much easier!

    • Photo: Georgia Orton

      Georgia Orton answered on 11 Nov 2019: last edited 11 Nov 2019 8:33 am

      I worked on a difficult project for over a year and I couldn’t get anything to work. By working hard and using all the information/skills I learnt during my PhD I was finally able to get the project to work well and get some very exciting results!

    • Photo: Aimee Egglestone

      Aimee Egglestone answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      My biggest achievement was during my Master’s project when I created tiny particles which can be used to treat cancer, without the horrible side effects that a lot of current cancer drugs give. They could be directed to specifically where the tumour was, and then only affected the tumour and a minimal amount of the surrounding tissue.

      Sadly I wasn’t able to continue the project as PhD funding was dropped.

    • Photo: Thibaut Deviese

      Thibaut Deviese answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I managed to analyse the composition of some cosmetics that were used by Egyptian people thousands of years ago!

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