• Question: Hello Deborah since when did you want to be a scientist?

    Asked by kianholt42 to Deborah on 16 Jun 2016.
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      Deborah Prunty answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      I’ve always been interested in science. I don’t think I realised that I wanted to be a scientist until I thinking about what I wanted to do after I left school. I wanted to go to uni, but wasn’t sure what I wanted to study. It was my geography teacher who convinced me to study chemistry. She knew how much I loved chemistry despite the fact that I hated my teacher. She pointed out that if I could do that then it really was the subject that I liked, and that I’d be able to still enjoy it after years of studying it at uni. She is a very smart lady, and I’m grateful for her good advice.

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