• Question: do you think youll ever win a nobel priza

    Asked by rachelandersonxx to Chia-Yu, Helen, Matthew, Matt H, Rhod on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Chia-Yu Lin

      Chia-Yu Lin answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Haha, I have never think about this.

    • Photo: Rhodri Jenkins

      Rhodri Jenkins answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      You never know 😀

      The good thing about working in the area we work in is that with the potential social and political impacts of our work we could be up for a Nobel Peace Prize as well as one for science 😛

    • Photo: Helen Pritchard-Smith

      Helen Pritchard-Smith answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Sadly not, i am not a leader in the field as i am at or at least near the bottom of the pile. You have to dedicate your life to research which is not what i plan on doing as i would like to be a teaching fellow (teach at university level). Also it is hard to predict what science will be considered impressive enough to win, sometimes it is a discovery that people have been working towards for some time or a reaction that has made lots of other science easier/possible. It is a common oral exam question for PhD students: who do you think will win the next nobel prize for chemistry? It is tough to answer as many people value lots of different kinds of chemistry.

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