• Question: When did you become a scientist ?

    Asked by lulu123 to Martin, Marcus, James, Rob, Suzanne on 10 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by gbarrowcliffe, fordfocus99.
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      Robert Thompson answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I don’t know, It’s only when people ask me questions like this that I realise I actually am a Scientist. I think I probably became on when I Started doing science at Uni.

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      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I probably became a scientists properly once I finished my PhD (became a Dr) in 2010. Before that I felt more like a scientist-in-training. If I count doing physics at uni, I started 9 years ago.

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      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I feel like I started being a scientist when I went to uni to study Physics. But with science, there are always things to learn and you can always get better!

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      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 10 Mar 2012:

      I think the first time you encounter something that you don’t understand, ask ‘Why’ and then try and figure it out you are a scientist. Even from a young age I was performing ‘experiments’. Seriously though I’ve only really felt like a ‘proper scientist’ since I started my PhD and people started asking ME questions about science, and not the other way around.

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      James Boone answered on 10 Mar 2012:

      I considered myself a scientist when I started undertaking independent research instead of being taught in lectures. In which case I’ve been a scientist for 3.5 years.

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