• Question: Do you ever lose anything on your workbench?

    Asked by PANDA to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Yes, my patience! I was never that keen on experiments at school, which is partly why I became a theorist.

    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I’m really neat and tidy, so I generally know where everything is. One of the people in my lab occasionally borrows stuff and doesn’t put it back in the right place so then it takes me ages to find it.

    • Photo: Kerry O'Shea

      Kerry O'Shea answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Tweezers have a habit of going missing around these parts 🙂

    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I am the clumsiest scientist the world has ever known. I’d loose my head if it wasn’t screwed on! I try to keep things in the right place, but tweezers, pipettes, and tape always seem to go missing. I actually bought some tinfoil as a present to the other group in my lab so that they would stop nicking mine!

      I once had a student who made a bit of a mess of my work bench and I couldn’t find anything, so I gave him a little telling off – he thought it was hilarious and started calling me the Hulk. Now whenever I get annoyed people say “HULK MAD!”. The student even bought me a pair of hulk hands!

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