• Question: who inspires you most

    Asked by anon-202019 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I think its much easier to get inspired by someone when you know feel you know them a bit. Right now, my supervisor inspires me all the time. She’s founded a program called Physics Without Frontiers https://www.ictp.it/physics-without-frontiers.aspx. The program aims to inspire, train and motivate physics students worldwide, especially in developing countries. Some of the things she’s done and continues to do are amazing.

    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I think my fiance, who is also a nuclear physicist. He has such a good work ethic and pushes me to do things

    • Photo: Sophia Pells

      Sophia Pells answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I get to work with loads of amazing scientists who are so passionate and enthusiastic about what they do so it’s quite easy to be inspired by them.

    • Photo: Andy Buckley

      Andy Buckley answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      No one person… it should probably be my family or something, but for work stuff it’s just the general collection of bright, hard-working people in my field who are forever doing impressive things that make me think “argh, I should be doing that, too!” FOMO, but for science nerds

    • Photo: Emily Lewis

      Emily Lewis answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      When I was younger it was reading about scientists from history and the news and the amazing things they did.
      Now I actually get to work with loads of excellent scientists who are really intelligent in addition to being lovely people. They are working all over the place, one of my friends designs cameras that get put in satellites and launched into space, another one is a mechanical engineer working on a massive laser. They inspire me to work harder and do great science!

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