These Were a Few of Their Favorite Things
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These Were a Few of Their Favorite Things
Science Times asked five noted scientists about the toys they remember from childhood.
Maria Zuber
54, geophysicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Of course I loved my chemistry set. I played with that a great deal and mixed together toxic things and household things, probably at age 10 or 11. It had flasks and test tubes and gave you small amounts of different elements you could mix together, things that changed color. It came with little paper sheets so you could measure the pH and tell if something was an acid or a base. I’m one of those odd people who read chemistry books for fun at that age.
Mike Brown
47, astronomer, California Institute of Technology, and author of “How I Killed Pluto”
I did everything with Lego blocks. We just had boxes full of squares and rectangles and made buildings and contraptions that ran down strings. We experimented with things that had wheels and pulleys. My brother and I would try to make traps we would try to spring on each other. By 12 or 13, I was blowing up things with firecrackers and calcium carbide. At one point I gave myself second-degree burns on my arms.
