Failures: Why Science is so Successful

FIRESTEIN, Stuart

ISBN 10: 019939010X ISBN 13: 9780199390106

Published by Oxford University Press, (New York), 2016

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Title: Failures: Why Science is so Successful

Publisher: Oxford University Press, (New York)

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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Edition: 1st Edition

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A fascinating glimpse of the realities of scientific failure

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Stuart Firestein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don't know. Dedicated to promoting science to a public audience, he serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public Understanding of Science and was awarded the 2011 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship and teaching. He was also recently named an AAAS Fellow.

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