• Question: have you ever saved somebodys life with the thing that you have made ?

    Asked by anon-226603 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 20 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Aimee Egglestone

      Aimee Egglestone answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      Not directly, no. But the changes I make to processes often remove chemicals which cause cancer or which could kill you if the safety measures failed. So I have probably helped stop someone dying – but not in any big dramatic way. More just in a “I stopped them slowly increasing their risk of cancer” or “I stopped them dying from being leaked on by a dripping pipe”.

    • Photo: Georgia Orton

      Georgia Orton answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      I haven’t no. I work on things that might reduce the carbon emissions from different processes for example. I do have several friends from uni working in medicinal chemistry in pharmaceutical companies who have probably been involved in developments that do change/save people’s lives.

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