Raj Shah: ‘A good laugh in the lab is often as important as a good reagent’

Growing up in India, my father worked in chemical manufacturing after a postdoc at Imperial College London. My family lived across from a chemical plant, while most kids were learning cricket, I was learning about chemical reactions and industrial processes. Science felt less like a school subject and more like a family language. Once you understand that language, you can’t help but want to keep speaking it.