• Question: Which scientist inspired you to be as good as you possibly can?

    Asked by jessamy to Laura, Nicola, Norman, Thanasis on 10 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Nicola Wardrop

      Nicola Wardrop answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Oh, good question! I think Alexander Fleming. First, he was Scottish, like me! Second, he discovered penicillin, which is an antibiotic – it allows people with infections caused by bacteria to be treated, by killing the bacteria.

      I like the fact that his discovery was just an accident in his lab, but it has changed the treatment of disease forever. Pretty awesome!

    • Photo: Laura Soul

      Laura Soul answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      That was a man called Stephen Jay Gould. He studied fossils and evolution, not as many people have heard of him as some other scientists who studied evolution, like Darwin, but he had some really amazing ideas. He was very good at questioning how people thought things worked and coming up with new possibilities, so sometimes people didn’t like him (even I don’t agree with some of his ideas!). He was also really good at explaining his ideas to anyone, even when they were very complicated, which I think is a really important thing for a scientist to be able to do and that is why I found him so inspiring.

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