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Asked by Ciara to Chris, Josh, Rebecca, Rob, Susan on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by frying pan.
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Rebecca Dewey answered on 15 Jun 2015:
I would love to have something that I have done stay on in science for future scientists to read or learn about. Ideally, I would love to have something named after me, but I would settle for having some piece of work published and be read and referred to by lots of people.
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Susan Cartwright answered on 15 Jun 2015:
I would like to be responsible for discovering something really important – something that would be a chapter in future textbooks. Of course, everyone would like to imagine discovering something that would not only make it to the textbooks, but make it to the textbooks with their name attached to it: the Higgs boson, the Planck function, Maxwell’s equations, fermionsMATOMO_URL But let’s be honest: that kind of thing mostly happens to theorists, and I’m an experimentalist, so it’s not very likely. However, it would be nice if I contributed to a really exciting result that became part of the body of knowledge that every physics student was expected to know (“this prediction was eventually confirmed by the ground-breaking experiment of Cartwright et al., which finally demonstrated that…”).
Hasn’t happened so far. One can always dream!
* Some of the senior scientists I knew at MIT had been students of Fermi’s at Chicago in the 1940s or 1950s. Apparently he would never use the name “fermions” – he called them “particles obeying exclusion principle statistics”. Which kind of explains why everyone else calls them fermions.
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Josh Meyers answered on 15 Jun 2015:
I would like my parents to hear something I did on the news.
Yes, its that simple.
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Mrs Marshall commented on :
What a brilliant question Ciara!
Ciara commented on :
Thank you