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Asked by bryony123456789 to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 13 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by kate8, ruddockawh.
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Rhys Phillips answered on 11 Jun 2011:
For me, it wasn’t really inspiration of any particular person – I enjoyed maths and science the most at school and found them the easiest so it just made sense to go into that field really.
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Sarah Cook answered on 11 Jun 2011:
When I was at school I had a brilliant chemistry teacher who was very entertaining and certainly captured my imagination. He encouraged us to always question what we were told and I learned how we should form a hypothesis and then aim to prove through planning our experiments.
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David Corne answered on 11 Jun 2011:
I’ve always wanted to understand how the world works, and a teacher at School (when I was 11ish) thought I should read a famous book by Descartes (forget the name of book) – the lad who invented quite a bit of the Maths and logic we use today. This is what happened: early in the book Descartes tries to prove that God exists, using a simple logic argument. I found myself thinking that the argument had holes in it. Then I went on a long walk thinking “but this guy is supposed to be really really clever — am I dumb or are these really flaws in his argument?” – I finished up on the side of “Descartes was sorely misled – I’m right”. And this soon led to: “The people who tend to get revered for their scientific work often get it wrong — I could do that!”
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Helen Fletcher answered on 12 Jun 2011:
My biology teacher at secondary school. Mrs Nelson, I was 13 yrs old. I was the first person in my family to go to university so had never thought about it before. She sat me down one day after class and told me how good I was and how I should go to University. We looked though a book of university courses together and looked up the entry requirements. I really liked infectious diseases so she told me I should study microbiology and said I was easily good enough to do it. I was really lucky. Everyone should believe they are good at something.
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Ian van der Linde answered on 13 Jun 2011:
I’ve always been interested in science, even as a very young child (even before starting school!). I loved to be told how things worked, and liked to take things apart – so, for me, I think I was born interested in science, although I didn’t know it at the time!
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