• Question: How did you come to the decision of being a scientist ?

    Asked by HARLEY MAX EDWARDS to David, Eva, Kate, Nicholas, Rachel on 12 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Nicholas Pearce

      Nicholas Pearce answered on 12 Nov 2015:

      Hey Harley,

      Learning about science in school always kept me very interested. I liked how someone could have an idea, then have to think of experiment to try and see if that idea was true or not.
      Learning about space was my favourite, and I would read lots of books about it, but then in year 9 I found out more about the world of atoms and started being interested in the really small stuff too and then became a chemist!

    • Photo: David Nunan

      David Nunan answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      Hey,

      I got into sport and exercise when I was young and started to want to know more about my body and how it was responding. This meant that I had to understand the human body, biology and physiology as well as nutrition. So I kind of fell in to it out of my own interest in getting better at my sport.

      Then when I got to university to study sports science I had some great lecturers who inspired me to what to work in that field. I then changed to medicine a little later and never looked back!

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