Here you will be able to read interviews written by pupils aged 16 to 19 years of age.

Sir Harry Kroto - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996
By Sophie Catt, Amy O'Donnell, Rosalind Purcell, Fiona Seabrook and Jennie Scurlock.
Newstead Wood School for Girls, Greater London, St Augustine's High School Billington Lancs

Extract:
From childhood, have you always wanted to have a career based on science?
No, I didn’t. I still don’t want to be a scientist. (Laugh) No really, my main interest is art and graphics. When growing up, the most important thing was getting a stable job and so my father encouraged me to take up science. I took science without the intention of becoming a scientist. However I worked hard to get where I am, I wasn’t a top student but I was usually came in the top ten which motivated me to work at it. I would get up at nine to do lab work and then every evening I would study for three hours, I never even had time to be ill!
As a small child I could work out roughly anything, I could look at a steam engine and tell you how it worked. This way of thinking was brought on by the toys I was surrounded with as a child, they weren’t all computerised as they are now but you had to use and develop skills that could analyse and assess different shapes and applications.
I’m no smarter than you guys, I wasn’t naturally talented in science, but what I do have is motivation and I work very hard to do well. Read more...

Bill Rutherford and Gary Brudvig
By Emma Grant and Julie Smith
Newstead Wood School for Girls, Greater London

Extract:
We shook hands with the two world famous scientists standing in front of us. For the moment, all we knew was that their names were Bill Rutherford and Gary Brudvig – one English and one American, respectively – and that they were somehow involved in the process of research connected with the subject of Solar Energy and Artificial Photosynthesis.
With the severe lack of chairs about, we decided to conduct our ‘interview’ on the floor... Read more...

Chris Pickett, David Officer, Jim and Michael Grätzel
By H. Phan, A. Rigby and M. Shah.
Newstead Wood School for Girls, Greater London

Extract:
After I finished university I went to Sweden to work in a lab, where they were working with copper.
I then travelled back to Berkley, where I was made head of Plant Biology, even though I knew nothing about plants.
I’d get all these people calling up and asking why their plant were sick, and I just couldn’t answer their questions.
We were actually investigating photosynthesis, looking at a little part of a complex system and taking it apart.
It was really great! Read more...

Jan Anderson
By Sophie catt
Newstead Wood School for Girls, Greater London