• Question: how old are you when you started as a scientist?

    Asked by hannah1 to Will, Amy, Karen, Sarah, Vijay on 8 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by mickey, zaina, candybell101.
    • Photo: Vijay Yadav

      Vijay Yadav answered on 8 Jun 2012:

      I was 12 when I first did an experiemnt.

    • Photo: Sarah Martin

      Sarah Martin answered on 8 Jun 2012:

      I was 16 when I picked my physics A-level course, but I didn’t want to be a scientist then. I didn’t think I was clever enough. It took several years before I had the confidence to say I wanted to be a scientist.
      I was 20 when I went to university to study natural sciences – a course that allows you choose different subjects and is flexible about which science you want to do in the end, and that really helped me keep my options open.

    • Photo: Amy Birch

      Amy Birch answered on 8 Jun 2012:

      When I was about 13; my parents bought me a microscope for my birthday & I used to go into the garden & catch insect or pick plants and study them up close.

    • Photo: Will Reynolds

      Will Reynolds answered on 8 Jun 2012:

      Hi Hannah1. I didn’t really think about doing science as a career until I was at university when I was 18. Before that I did science because I enjoyed it but I always wanted to be a pilot until I went to university and changed my mind!

    • Photo: Karen Reed

      Karen Reed answered on 8 Jun 2012:

      Belive it or not I find this a difficult question to answer becuase I drifted into being a scientist by just doing what I enjoyed. I guess its when I started my phd in 1996 when I would have been 22. Before then I was a student doing biology – would that have made me a scientist?

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