• Question: whos your role model

    Asked by sheppy74 to Lou, Dilwar, Rachel, Simon, Susan on 13 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by agillespie, u12hillc, cohare12.
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      Simon Langley-Evans answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      Sheppy- I don’t think I have one. As I have got older I have stopped watching what other people are doing and aspiring to be like them. I like who I am now and feel able to make my own goals and dreams and chase them my way.

      When I was at school my role models were sportsmen. My big hero was the cricketer Ian Botham who inspired me with his confidence and his attitude which was all about winning, taking risks and having fun. My role model in science was my first boss after I finished my PhD. He was (is) the only real genius I have ever met and I learned a lot from him about how to think and how to communicate.

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      Rachel Dakin answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      I don’t have a single role model but a few! I look up to certain characteristics of different people. My PhD supervisor was quite a role model for me. We didn’t always agree on everything (particularly science things!) but she is a good scientist and had a lot of characteristics I hope I have in the future. My auntie is also a role model of mine, she never judged anyone and always made time for anyone that needed it. These seem like obvious things but she did it in a a totally natural way.
      When I was younger I was jealous of lots of friends, relatives, celebrities but as we get older that tends to fade. Don’t get me wrong there are many people I’d like to look more like or swap jobs with for a couple of days! But I try to make the best of who I am and realise with a bit of effort I can be whoever I want to be.

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      Susan Skelton answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Like Simon and Rachel, I don’t think I really have a role model. But there are definitely different people who inspire me and who I try to be more like, depending on what I am doing.

      My PhD supervisor is probably one of my main role models in science. I learned so much from him and hope that I will develop some of his attributes as I become more experienced. Whenever I have a problem that I don’t know how to solve, I try to think what he would do!

      I am also very much inspired by Marie Curie. She was a Polish and French physicist and chemist, who is famous for her research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to ever win in multiple sciences. Considering she lived from 1867 – 1934, when most women didn’t even work, let alone conduct pioneering science research, I think what she did was absolutely amazing!! Women scientists like her have made it possible for women today to be able to have outstanding careers in science too.

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      Louise Brown answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      My nana! She is the most amazing woman I have ever met and would do anything for anybody. She has taught me a lot about how to treat people and always knows how to get stains out of clothes and fix things! I hope I am like her!

      My PhD supervisor is also my role model at the minute! She is a wonderful teacher, and also good at putting me in my place when I get a bit adventurous in the lab! She is also never scared to tell people how she really feels, something I admire and am not very good at!

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      Dilwar Hussain answered on 16 Nov 2013:

      I don’t have one but many which are Al-Khawarizmi (father of algebra & algorithms), Ibn Al-Haytham (father of optics) and Ibn Sina (father of modern Medicine) who also wrote “The canon of Medicine” in the 1100’s which is still being used to teach students at university even to this day. The great things about these scientists were that they were polymaths which means an expert scholar in a lot of different subjects. I guess my most influential role model and always has been is my Father.

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