• Question: why did you want to be a scientist and what is the best thing you've found

    Asked by ninja penguin assain to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 13 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by drake, Drama Queen, bubbles123, mr P.T.
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      Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I’ve wanted to be a scientist since I was 7. Originally I wanted to be a forensic scientist, so someone who solves crime with science as I thought that was really cool. But after my best friend died of cancer I started to do cancer research instead.

      As for best thing I’ve found, I was part of a research team making a virus that would only kill cancer cells and leave normal ones alone, so that was pretty amazing!

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Basically because I like science and so I was also good at it.
      Apart from a ten-pound note in the car park ;^), a few years ago I did some rather hard calculations that no-one had thought of doing before and the results helped us understand something new about how the proton is made of of quarks.

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