• Question: Have you wanted to be a scientist your whole life?

    Asked by hazel to Rebecca, Rob, Josh, Chris on 18 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by bonnie the bunny.
    • Photo: Josh Meyers

      Josh Meyers answered on 18 Jun 2015:


      Definitely not! First I wanted to be an artist and then a designer. It was not until the end of college that I decided that I could come back to art, but science requires learning.

      Since then I have stopped seeing the distinction between science and art. My science provides all the creative thought I need to keep me happy!

    • Photo: Rebecca Dewey

      Rebecca Dewey answered on 18 Jun 2015:


      Yes, pretty much! When I was about 8 I decided I wanted to be a sort of pharmacologist called a pharmacognacist (deals with making medicines out of plants). Then when I was in about year 10 (so 15 I guess) I discovered physics and I had a really great female physics teacher. I did physics at university and I really loved astrophysics and theoretical physics, but I wasn’t good enough at the mathematics that I needed for that and I wasn’t self-motivated enough to work really hard at it. Then a great opportunity came up in biomedical physics and I took it – since then I’ve moved around a bit to settle on medical physics / imaging.

    • Photo: Rob Temperton

      Rob Temperton answered on 21 Jun 2015:


      Not really. I have always liked the idea of being a scientist and studying science – it has always interested me. But I have always been tempted to pursue one of my other interests. I still don’t know if physics is what I want to do with the rest of my life!!

      Rob

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