Why did you choose to become a scientist when your favourite subject in school was history?

Question: Why did you choose to become a scientist when your favourite subject in school was history?
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Asked by anon-210346 to Hannah on 13 Mar 2019.
- Hannah Dalgleish answered on 13 Mar 2019:
  
  I loved maths and physics as well, and to me studying astronomy is kind of like doing history. Because it takes time for the light to travel to us from the stars, we are actually looking back in time! So when I study stars that are far away I might be looking thousands of years into the past, I think that’s the coolest history ever. I also enjoy learning about the history of astronomy – what did we know about the Universe 200 years ago and why?

Question: Why did you choose to become a scientist when your favourite subject in school was history?