Question: Does your work affect people? If so how many people and in what way?

Ben Drumm answered on 19 Jun 2013:

Indirectly yes – so I design bits for our particle accelerator, which helps keep it running which allows people to come in and do science. Some examples of science done here are Persil (I think) doing experiments with soap to see how it performs washing at lower temperatures, research into hydrogen fuel storage methods for cars, and Cadbury’s coming in to investigate why the chocolate their factory was producing tasted funny…