• Question: when did you get excited about science

    Asked by ikirshtein02 to Roy, Kate on 10 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by mgarrido13.
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      Kate Nicholson answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Last time was last week, when I helped to build a machine that will lert me use another colour of laser with the Raman machine I use on the books. It was great to figure out what all the bits do, and the reason they were arranged in that way, then finally when it was put together to see it working almost as good as the one we bought.
      I have a few science newsfeeds on my facebook/flipboard so ususally every day there is something cool reported that I didn’t know or realise.

      If your question is when did I first get excited about science, it was when I was about 5 and at the science museum in London. I saw the moon lander and thought ‘Humans did that, they went through space to our moon and back again. I need to know how they did that’ Kid hooked on science forever.

    • Photo: Roy Adkin

      Roy Adkin answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Hi there,
      Well…I think I was about 5 when I realized that the world around me was amazing and I wanted to know how everything worked! I started off being interested in geology…fossils and minerals…then astronomy, then chemistry…now just about everything! Every single morning I wake up and I’m excited about coming to work…It might come across as a bit geeky…but you know what? I love being a geek!!
      Thank you for your question 🙂

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