• Question: Have you ever thought about saving live e.g being a paramedic?

    Asked by anon-186925 to Kathryn on 14 Nov 2018.
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      Kathryn Coldham answered on 14 Nov 2018:


      Great question! Doing a job that directly saves peoples’ lives is absolutely fantastic, but I never wanted to work in a medical job myself. I knew from the age of 13 that I wanted to become a Particle Physicist (this was when the machine I now work on, called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is at CERN, started up. More information about the LHC can be found here: https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider).

      Although, for some of the work carried out at CERN, there are medical applications! For example, the first 3D colour x-ray of a human was recently made using technology made at CERN (here is the link to an article about it: https://kt.cern/article/first-3d-colour-x-ray-human-using-cern-technology).

      Please feel free to ask me any more questions, I’m happy to answer any that you have 🙂

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