Science as Autobiography
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Science as Autobiography

The Troubled Life of Niels Jern

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Science as Autobiography

The Troubled Life of Niels Jern

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Year
2008
ISBN
9780300128710
Edition
1
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Science & Technology Biographies
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. PART I: The Making of a Romantic Character (1911–1947)
  6. 1.“I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived”
  7. 2.“Stylistically, I’m Best at Irony”
  8. 3. “I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn’t Be Used”
  9. 4.“I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist”
  10. 5.“When I Look at Other Scientists . . .None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have”
  11. 6.“Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor”
  12. 7.“To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths ofMy Own Soul”
  13. 8. “I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed”
  14. 9.“Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of Woman”
  15. Part II: The Making of the Selection Theory (1947–1954)
  16. 10.“The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People”
  17. 11. “I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology”
  18. 12.“Antibody This,Antibody That, They Weren’t Really Much Interested”
  19. 13.“These People Don’t Know What They’re Doing”
  20. 14. “I Suppose I Should Do Something,Maybe an Experiment or Something”
  21. Parabasis. The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession
  22. Part III: A Man,His Theory, and His Network (1954–1994)
  23. 15.“My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself”
  24. 16.“This Theory Hadn’t Made Much of a Stir, So Now,What Was I to Do?”
  25. 17. “I’d Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology”
  26. 18. “Finally,My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies”
  27. 19.“Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake”
  28. 20. “I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better”
  29. 21. “Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject”
  30. Epilogue
  31. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
  32. NOTES
  33. UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
  34. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  35. INDEX