Letters to a Young Scientist

Name: Letters to a Young Scientist
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ISBN: 9780871403773

ISBN-10: 0871403773

ISBN-13: 9780871403773

Edition: 2014

Authors: Edward O. Wilson

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Inspired by Theodore Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both his successes and his failures—and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill, but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it.…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.49" wide x 0.76" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International & the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.