• Question: what is the best moment of your entire scientist life?

    Asked by GenericLad #420 to Arthur on 15 Jun 2015.
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      Arthur Wilkinson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hmmm difficult question. I’ve given this some thought and I’ve gone for the graduation of my first and (up to now) still my best PhD student. It was like becoming a scientific “father”

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    Arthur commented on :

    I only did GSCE physics and chemistry (or O levels as they were then called) and then left school to work in industry. I then did BTEC qualifications on day release from work. As my BTEC qualifications (and all my qualifications after that) are in polymers, I sometimes feel that my breadth of scientific knowledge is narrower than that of my colleagues. For this reason, and the fact that a lot of the exciting science is now done where two sciences meet (such as biological physics), I’d recommend as broad a science education as possible.