I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Disease Zone. It has scientists studying theĀ causes and processes ofĀ illness . Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
I was a very weak child and was my parent’s worry. At the age of 13, I prayed God.”If you make me healthy and strong, I will be a medical doctor like Albert Schweitzer and help the poor and sick.”
Due to strong opposition of my parents I didn’t insist to go to medical school but I went to graduate school to study Biochemistry. I thought biochemistry will be helpful someday when I enter medical school.
Well, I retired last year from a university where I was teaching biochemistry for 28 years. Instead of me being a medical doctor, I am helping the Nepali students to become medical doctors. I hope and wish to see many Nepali ‘Albert Schweitzer’ in the future.
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I saw a television show when I was 4 where two of the coolest guys (well, I certainly thought so) showed me how I could find things in my Mum’s kitchen, and mix them together to make a volcano…. bicarb soda and vinegar. When I found out those guys were scientists I told my parents thats what I was going to be when I grew up, oh, and could I please make a volcano š
Over the years the type of scientist I was going to be changed greatly (from studying volcanos, glaciers, insects, a phycisist, industrial chemist….) until I settled on medical science. But I always knew I would be a scientist of some sort – I even turned down a spot at medical school so I could keep playing in my medical lab!
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I wish that I could say that I wanted to be a scientist since I was a child, but I can’t. Being a scientist is something I sort of fell into; I have always been interested in science, but for many years I thought that I was going to be a computer programmer. It wasn’t until I reached university and decided that I didn’t want to do programming as a career that I started looking for ways to apply the interest I had in science. During my undergraduate university degree, I did a course that let me design my own study, and from there I was hooked. That got me thinking about grad school, where I did my master’s degree and my Ph.D., and now I’m a scientist!
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I always thought science was interesting when I was in school, because I liked finding solutions to questions in interesting ways. Originally, I wanted to work in habitat rehabilitation, finding out about all of the plant and animal species in an area, and how to help them recover from damage or changes to their environment. This is because I grew up in areas where lots of species are under threat from industrial activity and farming, and wanted to help save them. I also wanted to do documentaries on these habitats, like Sir David Attenborough, so people could learn about the impact we have on the environment.
When I got to university, my course ended up being more about the human body than ecology and the environment. I had the opportunity to work with a medical research lab over my summer holidays, which really caught my interest, as few people know about cancer cachexia, and there are lots of questions that need to be answered. Even though I changed the field I was working in, it is still all about learning about the subject, and figuring out how to look at a problem from different angles, to help improve the situation, but now it is helping patients, instead of plants and animals.
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I’ve always had an interest in biology and how the body works, so I just rolled into it. Same with people who have always wanted to be a chef and love to cook, I’ve always wanted to work in science and love to do science.
I think my brain was wired to be a scientist….but where that came from, no idea. I don’t have any other scientists in my family!
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