• Question: do you meet famous people being a scientist

    Asked by to Anna, Chris, Jane, Iain, Nick on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Iain Moal answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Not really. Well, I’ve met some famous scientitsts, including a couple of Nobel Prize winners, but not anyone who is famous outside of science.

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      Jane Charlesworth answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      I’ve met some fairly famous scientists and we had an Olympic gold medallist come to the open day at my work to talk about sports science, but mostly, no.

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      Nick Goldman answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Like Iain and Jane, I meet some famous scientists but not many celebrities. I met David Attenborough one time, when we did some work for one of his TV programmes.

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      Anna Middleton answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Hi midget123
      I’ve met a few famous scientists (e.g. James Watson, part of ‘Watson and Crick’ who discovered DNA). When I worked in the NHS with families with genetic conditions I did meet a few famous people as patients but I can’t tell you as I have to protect their confidentiality. Confidentiality is a very important part of healthcare, particularly with genetics. When you see the doctor to discuss something he/she takes great care not to share your personal information with anyone else outside the healthcare team. This is one of the areas I research, e.g. who does your genetic information belong to – is it just you? or what about all your relatives that you share it with? afterall, you share your genes with your parents and brothers and sisters.

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      Chris Cole answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Not really. Although, I did meet Brian Cox (the actor, not the Prof.) as part of the launch of our sequencing facility last year. I analysed his genome as a bit of publicity stunt.

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