• Question: when you left school was you interested in science if so why and was science one of your strong points

    Asked by joelayden to Alan, Deepak, Francesca, Lilly, Nick on 7 Mar 2014.
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      Deepak Kar answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I was, indeed. I would say it was a combination of two factors. My dad was a professor of Physics in the local university, so that was certainly an inspiration. Then I read a few books by/on the famous physicist Richard Feynman, and those were deeply motivating. I would recommend this book for everyone:
      Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman. It is hilarious. For more advanced students, see if you can get your hand on the book Genius by James Gleick. It is a bit more technical, but immensely motivating even ignoring the hard bits.

      I liked physics and maths in school, biology, not so much!

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      Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      Yep, I liked science, especially physics as I always found new discoveries in space really interesting. Science and maths were some of my strongest subjects, because I was interested in them.

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      Francesca Day answered on 9 Mar 2014:

      Yes, I was so interested in science that I decided to go and study science at university! I would say that science was one of my strong points too. I was always very interested in science, so I spent lots of time getting good at it!

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      Lilian Hunt answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      I was interested in science long before I left school so by the time I did and went off to university I knew that I wanted to do a degree in science too. Thankfully I was interested in something that I was quite good at so with a bit of hard work I made it to where I wanted to be. My love for science probably came from my fascination for how stuff works and why, especially in people! A good biology teacher helped and suddenly I realised that genetics was where I wanted to go, especially with so many unanswered questions out there about how we become who we are!

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      Nick Wright answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Yes I was very interested in science at school and when I left school I wanted to study science more so I went to college and then to University. After school my strong points were physics and chemistry, so that’s what I studied at college. Then I found that I preferred physics more and I really enjoyed astronomy, so at University I studied physics and astronomy. You should study whatever you enjoy, hopefully that’s something you’re good at as well!

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