• Question: What interested you to get into science?

    Asked by anon-260045 to aprilcridland, Stephen on 25 Sep 2020. This question was also asked by anon-259785.
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      April Cridland answered on 25 Sep 2020:

      Hi, thanks for your question. I like to solve problems and figure things out by exploring, experimenting or researching new ideas. All of the sciences are based on this and physics has the added benefit that I get to design and make new equipment for cutting edge experiments.

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    Tim commented on :

    I have always love science. When I was a holiday representative in the South of France I got addicted to SCUBA diving and wanted to do marine biology. I went back at the age of 26 to collage and studied A levels then a Higher National Diploma in Applied biology. Then I didn’t do marine biology but wanted to work in a laboratory and got a job here at NHS Blood and Transplant and became a Biomedical Scientist.

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    Andy commented on :

    To be honest it was pictures in science fiction magazines in the 1970’s, the future looked so exciting! Some of it is has and is coming true 🙂
    Science fact can also be exciting!
    One the greatest things a scientist can do is observe, ask questions and think about how the Universe or at the other scale subnuclear physics and everything in between actually works. There is so much we don’t know and that’s mind blowing to think of the discoveries you may make,even at an ‘amateur’ level, for example there are many naturalists who are self taught and self motivated to learn about the natural world.