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Asked by anon-247940 to Martha, Jennifer, Dan, Ben, Baptiste on 11 Mar 2020.
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Baptiste Ravina answered on 11 Mar 2020:
We were asked a similar question here: /moscoviumm20-zone/question/when-did-you-start-to-be-interested-in-science/
But you asked about “really getting into science”, so I’d have to say it was a bit later, when I was accepted for a summer internship at CERN after the end of my second year of undergrad. I met so many brilliant people, students and researchers alike, and just being there in person, above the world’s largest particle collider, in the very lab where the Internet was invented, that the Higgs boson was discovered – enthralling.
That summer I did break an expensive prototype of a particle detector I was meant to study for radiation damage, but that didn’t stop me 🙂
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Jennifer Carroll answered on 11 Mar 2020:
Probably at A-Level because that’s when I really focused in on it. Doing Chemistry, Physics and Maths will do that!
It wasn’t until university that I really got into nuclear physics and I undertook 3 summer placements at Sellafield, home of the world’s civil nuclear power station. From there I went on to write my undergraduate dissertation on water treatment in the nuclear industry (more exciting that it sounds) and then to do a Masters in Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management! 🙂
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Ben Rowsell answered on 12 Mar 2020:
I think I was always interested in science without ever really realising what it was or how it was linked to what we learnt in classes. At school I was always just quite good at it so just got through it but It was always the practicals I loved. Realising that all the theory you had learned was shown through actually doing the experiments. I wasn’t exposed to much of this at school or college so it was really at university that I really enjoyed it. This is the reason I’m still doing research into it all now.
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Martha Jesson answered on 12 Mar 2020:
It wasn’t until I was in my 20s at University actually.
I studied studied Biology and Psychology at A-Level which helped me understand the theory behind why people behave the way they do. This really got me interested in it.
But it wasn’t until University where I was able to do my own research into things that were interesting to me, that I really got into scientific discovery. For my master’s and undergraduate I was able to interview people with mental health challenges and collect their feedback on various mental health services (including the Depersonalisation Disorder Service). That was really fun!
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