Scientific work and creativity
Subtitle: advice from the masters : a compilation
By: by the Citizen Scientists League ; edited by Reginald D. Smith
Contributors: Citizen Scientists League
Publisher: Citizen Scientists League
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Clearwater, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780615644011
Subjects: Creative ability in science; Science; Methodology; Scientists; Psychology
Other titles: Advice from the masters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Sheldon Greaves; title: Advice to a young investigator: chapters 1 & 2 / Santiago Ramón y Cajal; title: The art of scientific investigation: chapter 1: preparations / William Ian Beardmore Beveridge; title: Ten simple rules for getting published / Philip E. Bourne; title: Three essays from What is life / J.B.S. Haldane; title: Four golden lessons / Steven Weinberg; title: Creativity and intuition excerpt from chapter 3: the conception and experience of creativity / Hideki Yukawa; title: How scientists really think / Robert Scott Root-Bernstein; title: The art of scientific investigation: chapter 5: imagination / William Ian Beardmore Beveridge; title: Science, irrationality, & innovation / S. James Gates, Jr.; title: The art of scientific investigation: chapter 7: reason / William Ian Beardmore Beveridge; title: The art of discovery: making discoveries by rule / Wilhelm Ostwald; title: Hypotheses in physics / Henri Poincaré; title: Mathematical creation / Henri Poincaré; title: The part played by accident in invention and discovery / Ernst Mach; title: The art of scientific investigation: chapter 3: chance / William Ian Beardmore Beveridge; title: You and your research / Richard Hamming; title: Ten simple rules for doing your best research, according to Hamming / Thomas C. Erren, Paul Cullen, Michael Erren, Philip E. Bourne; title: Memoirs of a dissident scientist / Hannes Alfvén; title: Excerpt from "a backward look to the future" / Edwin Thompson Jaynes; title: Autobiographical sketch / Hermann von Helmholtz; title: On the process of becoming a great scientist / Morgan C. Giddings; title: The beginner's guide to winning the Nobel Prize: a life in science chapter nine: how to win a Nobel Prize / Peter Doherty; title: Excerpt about productivity and age / Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Maurine Bernstein & Helen Garnier; title: Indian institute of technology Madras (Chennai) convocation speech / Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman; title: Ten simple rules for building and maintaining a scientific reputation / Philip E. Bourne & Virginia Barbour; title: Cargo cult science / Richard Feynman; title: Pathological science / Irving Langmuir; title: "Science fans" and "amateur scientists" / Song Tian; title: The art of scientific investigation: excerpt on scientific ethics / William Ian Beardmore Beveridge.