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The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize (New Edition)

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize (New Edition)

A life in Science

by Peter Doherty
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/06/2014

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Is it possible to be passionate about politics, football or R&B and still be a creative scientist? In this entertaining and inspiring account, Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty offers readers an insider's guide into discovery science and the individuals who work in it.
Starting with the story of his own career and its improbable origins in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, and its progression to a breakthrough discovery about how human immunity works. Doherty explores the realities of a life in science. How research projects are selected; how discovery science is resourced and organised; the big problems it is trying to solve; and the rewards and pitfalls of a career in scientific research- all these are explored in The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize.
Doherty gives readers an insight into the issues that make him tick including his belief that the mission of science is to help make the world a better place to live in. He also essays answers to some of the great questions of our age. Are Nobel Prize winners exceptional human beings or just lucky? Are GMO crops really dangerous? And why can't scientists and born-again Christians get along?
ISBN:
9780522866667
9780522866667
Category:
Popular science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-06-2014
Publisher:
Melbourne University Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
282
Dimensions (mm):
198x132x21mm
Weight:
0.38kg
Peter Doherty

Peter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defence.

Based at the University of Melbourne, he continues to be involved in research directed at understanding and preventing the severe consequences of influenza virus infection.

He has published five books for general readers, including the bestselling The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize.

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