A Thinking Radish. Meadav's Autobiography

Author: Peter Medawar, written by Yuan Kaiwen, Cao Dianwen, Wang Wenjing, Hu Yuanyuan translated
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Autobiographies by scientists can be hard to engage with. But when the author is the Prime Minister of the scientific world, a perfectionist, a top figure, and a star, it's entirely different. Medawar is a Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and an outstanding writer promoting science to the public. This book is both interesting and thought-provoking. With sharp, witty prose and a rich style of anecdotes, it portrays the author's life and the era he lived in, guiding readers from Rio de Janeiro to the Rockefeller Institute, Oxford, and Birmingham. It introduces such distinctive figures as his extraordinary brother Philip, outstanding individuals like Popper and Haldane, as well as his wife Joan and their family. The author's insights into learning environments, scientific discoveries, research management, and aging research are particularly thought-provoking. Readers will have the opportunity to encounter "a thinking radish."