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RSS feed		survey abc | def | ghi | jkl | mno | pqrs | tuv | wxyz | index Survey home First thoughts Final thoughts Survey responses RSS feed Michael Baum Gustav Born K Eric Drexler Marcus du Sautoy Harold Kroto Paul Lauterbur Leon Lederman Bernard Lovell Sophie Petit-Zeman Ingo Potrykus Jack Pridham Simon Singh Jack Steinberger James B Jack former chartered engineer and principal research officer at British Maritime Technology and Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Innate curiosity David James visiting professor of plant biotechnology at the University of Greenwich, emeritus fellow of Horticulture Research International, and pioneer of transgenic fruit breeding Genetics Nina Japundžić-Žigon professor of pharmacology at the University of Belgrade My interest in science was predefined by my birth, as I was born to and raised by two scientists Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski chair of the Scientific Council at the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, and former chair of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation A strong drive for practical activity, and for understanding the world by results of observation and experiment Professor Jonathan DG Jones senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre The Periodic Table of the chemical elements Dr Boris Kotchoubey researcher at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen Science combines the most important ideals of humanity – creativity and rationality Sir Harold W Kroto Francis Eppes professor of chemistry at Florida State University in Tallahassee, founder and chair of the Vega Science Trust, and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes I decided long ago that I would do as many of the things that interested me as possible, to the best of my ability Peter Kuhn life sciences director of the Scripps/Palo Alto Research Centre Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, and associate professor of cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute My mother is a breast cancer survivor Dr Fernand Labrie director of the CHUL Research Centre and head of the Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Centre at Laval University in Québec The desire to understand how living matter works Peter Lane president of the Central Veterinary Society, and veterinary surgeon Science was in my blood Paul C Lauterbur Centre for Advanced Study professor of chemistry, bioengineering, biophysics and computational biology and distinguished university professor of medical information sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging The world was my inspiration William Graeme Laver former professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra All I ever wanted to do was to work in a laboratory and discover new things Leon M Lederman Pritzker professor of science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, former director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on elementary particles and forces Niels Bohr’s opinion of how a hydrogen atom worked, and the measurement of light from an excited hydrogen atom, agreed perfectly William L Ledger professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Sheffield, and head of the Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine Two inspirational biology teachers Dr Peggy G Lemaux cooperative extension specialist in plant biotechnology at the University of California in Berkeley, head of the Lemaux Laboratory, and member of the African Biofortified Sorghum Project I was fascinated by biology Gareth Leng professor of experimental physiology at the Centre for Integrative Physiology at the University of Edinburgh, and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroendocrinology One of my university lecturers Dr Gilbert V Levin founder of Spherix, developer of Naturlose, and life detection experimenter on the Viking mission to Mars I became interested in biological wastewater processes Norman J Levitt professor of mathematics at Rutgers University in New Jersey In my community, the default assumption was that the route for a smart kid to take led to medicine or science Martin Livermore director of the Scientific Alliance, and principal associate at Ascham Associates Science teaches us to take a sceptical view of the world, and to look for and examine evidence Professor Sir Bernard Lovell founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and pioneer of radio astronomy A series of evening lectures on the electric spark Dr Mike Ludwig senior neuroendocrinology lecturer at the Centre for Integrative Physiology at the University of Edinburgh Curiosity Jennie Luebke associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine Several mentors who appreciated my great enthusiasm for science Dr Mark Lythgoe director of the Biomedical Imaging Centre at University College London, and neurophysiologist and senior lecturer in radiology and physics at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children I was born to do science
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