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100 Reasons to Become a Scientist or Engineer

On our 75th anniversary, we collected 75 reasons. Now we've added 25 more

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Lixia Zhang

I just followed my hunches, passion and dreams, and somehow turned into a scientist.

Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Science

University of California at Los Angeles

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As Scientist, researcher in the field of physical semeioitcs, I cannot understand the possibility to inspire the love for a well-defined scinece. I think that a major cause should be the desire to ame...
posted by Sergio Stagnaro
July 12, 2012 @ 1:15 PM

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