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What accomplishment matters most to you?

192 answers answered between 1985 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 2 Arts and letters 162 Politics and public life 14 Business and finance 4 Technology 1 Sport 9
Read by age Any age Before thirty 4 In their thirties 43 In their forties 38 In their fifties 43 In their sixties 35 Seventy and beyond 26
Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was.  The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗
Maggie Aderin-Pocock British space scientist and science educator
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2016 source ↗

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