Insight Into the Editor: Nigel Mackman, PhD.

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Insight Into Editor Insight Into the Editor: Nigel Mackman, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ever since I was a kid, I was fascinated in how things worked. I loved being outdoors interacting with nature. Biology was my best subject at school, and I found it really easy compared with other subjects―it all made sense. When I was 12, I decided I would get a PhD and become a scientist. For some reason my school advisor tried to discourage me. My parents (both nonscientists) simply asked if I could make a living being a scientist. I told them I didn’t know. I would have liked to be an ecologist but felt that the job opportunities were limited, so I studied molecular biology instead. None of my 3 children wanted to be scientists, but my nephew is studying …