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Asked by jordanclough96 to Anne, Carolyn, Joe, Mariana, Nick on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: About.
Question: if you won the nobel prize what would be your next experiment????
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Joseph Devlin answered on 16 Mar 2010:
For me, it’d have to be to scan the Nobel prize committee’s brains to find out what they were thinking. I hope my science is high quality, but I haven’t done anything to merit a Nobel.
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Nick Bradshaw answered on 16 Mar 2010:
If I won the Nobel Prize (I’m not holding my breath waiting) then it would mean that we had found a way of curing most people with schizophrenia. So I guess I would go on to either try and cure the rest or instead work on another similar condition like autisim.
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Mariana Vargas answered on 16 Mar 2010:
Wow! in the hypothetical case that I won the nobel prize for discovering how memories are stored in the brain and how they cannot longer be stored when people get dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, the next experiment would be to find ways of actually curing the disease in people. And in the future the idea would be to actually prevent the disease before it happens.
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Carolyn McGettigan answered on 16 Mar 2010:
Ah! I’m a very very long way away from a Nobel Prize!! It’s so hard to know what it would even take to win the prize as things change so quickly and there’s so much great science happening all the time.
However, I think I know what you’re getting at: If I won the Nobel prize then would I just stop researching cos I’d ‘done it all’? Well, even though I don’t think I’ll ever come close, I think most scientists are so passionate about what they do that they would keep on working, even if they became a Nobel laureate. There are professors here at UCL who are actually retired but still do research via their links with colleagues in the university. I think that’s quite inspiring. We really don’t just do science for prizes, and certainly not for the money! Scientists don’t get paid very much : (
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