• Question: Do you get any of your ideas by looking at what other scientists have done? Who inspiresyou at the moment

    Asked by jessicabromham to Angela, Gopal, Hannah, Becky, Vince on 23 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by poppywheeler3.
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      Rebecca Cook answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      One of the most important parts of being a scientist is reading and learning from other scientist’s work. This helps me to get ideas about what to do next in my research. My supervisor (boss) is very inspiring, she has worked very hard to get where she is now and is ones of the most determined and intelligent people I have ever met.

    • Photo: Gopal Ramchurn

      Gopal Ramchurn answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      I have always been inspired by other people’s work. Herbert Simon’s book on the sciences of the artificial taught me so much about the need for good mathematical representations to problems – if you can’t solve the problem you are probably using the wrong way of looking at it (a representation). I use this as a guiding principle to solve all sorts of problems and identify new ways of doing things! Right now, the work done by Elon Musk (the creator of Paypal and Tesla ) is really inspiring – he’s invented so much at such a young age!

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