• Question: have you ever been injured working with experaments

    Asked by Mr Orange to David, Kate on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by RetroFox.
    • Photo: David Nunan

      David Nunan answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Very good question Mr Orange! In fact, one of our most famous scientists, Marie Curie, actually died as a result of her discoveries and experiments with radiation.

      While running a sports science laboratory I conducted some pretty extreme experiments and was a participant in many of them. For one of these I had to run downhill using a special treadmill on a severe gradient to cause damage to my leg muscles. I was investigating if a sports supplement would help with the recovery from the muscle damage exercise. It didn’t and I couldn’t walk for a week afterwards! Ouch!

      (Ps. Can I be Mr Purple?)

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