• Question: what type of scientist are you

    Asked by kodey to Catherine, Charlotte, Colin, Becki, Rick on 24 Jun 2013.
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      Rebecca Scott answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I’m an archaeometrist, this means I use science to look at ancient materials and objects, and to answer archaeological questions. For example, I once stabbed pieces of leather to find out if it would/could have been used as armour during the Middle Ages.

      At the moment I am crushing and mixing different types of glass and then melting them into new glasses to find out what the ‘recycled’ chemical pattern looks like. I’m also looking at the chemistry of Roman glasses to see if I can find the same patterns. Did the Romans recycle their glass?

    • Photo: Colin Swift

      Colin Swift answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I’d say probably a laser physicist – my PhD was in laser physics, but I currently work in radiation protection so as well as laser beams I get to work with x-rays and other types of radiation!

    • Photo: Charlotte Dalton

      Charlotte Dalton answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I am a chemist, specifically my work is organic synthetic chemistry of sugars which means I work on making my own sugar molecules from simple chemicals. I do a lot of experimental work carrying out chemical reactions

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      Catherine Fontinelle answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Hi @kodey again!
      I work in a Microbiology laboratory. My job title is biomedical scientist. There are some very specific exams you need to take to be one but there is loads of information on the IBMS website about that.
      It means looking at different samples, such a faeces, urine, sputum etc to try and diagnose infections.

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