Never lose your nerve!
By: Alan J. Heeger
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9789814704854; 9789814704861
Subjects: Chemists; Nobel Prize winners; Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Perfect days; title: and some not so perfect; title: The first indication of creativity; title: Miracles actually happen!; title: Coming to acceptance of my mortality; title: The wart and the penny : the importance of uncorrelated events; title: "Whither thou goest, I will go"; title: Passion for a career as a physicist; title: From novice to professor; title: The pathway to great science; title: "Fire and rain"; title: Risk, creativity, and discovery; title: again; title: The Nobel Prize in chemistry; title: The creativity continues : high mobility polymer thin film transistors; title: Decision to go West : was it the KGB?; title: Life and science in Santa Barbara; title: The California entrepreneur : UNIAX Corporation; title: The impact of theater of our lives; title: Low-cost "plastic" solar cells : a dream becoming a reality; title: The serial entrepreneur; title: The delicacy of the creative mind; title: The joy of life; title: Final comments : Mentoring young scientists.