• Question: how did you become a famous person

    Asked by anon-214200 to Helen on 15 Jun 2019.
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      Helen Faulkner answered on 15 Jun 2019:

      I’m not famous so I’m not sure I understand your question.

      If you meant how do I become famous, there seems to be a couple of ways.
      Firstly is becoming known for something like a blog or a YouTube Chanel, and building a following, or taking part in a TV show and either being universally liked or universally hated.

      If you want to become famous as a scientist then you usually need to discover something (a new element, a new process etc) or work extremely hard in a particular field, do lots of research and write lots of papers. Or you could try and win a big prize like a Nobel (that’s really hard though).
      Even then you will probably only be famous to other people in that field.

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