Lab Girl

书名：Lab Girl
作者：HopeJahren
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ISBN：9781101874936
出版社：KnopfPublishingGroup
出版时间：2016-4-5
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：304
豆瓣评分： 7.8

书籍简介：

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home. Jahren’s probing look at plants, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her acute insights on nature enliven every page of this extraordinary book. Lab Girl opens your eyes to the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal. Here is an eloquent demonstration of what can happen when you find the stamina, passion, and sense of sacrifice needed to make a life out of what you truly love, as you discover along the way the person you were meant to be.

作者简介：

Hope Jahren was born and grew up in small-town southeastern Minnesota, just a few miles north of the Iowa border. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, and then took an Assistant Professor position at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1999 she was hired by Johns Hopkins University and went on to become the first woman ever to be promoted with tenure within their Earth and Planetary Sciences Department (est. 1876). In 2008 she was hired to build the Isotope Geobiology Laboratories at the University of Hawaii. She is one of four scientists, and the only woman, to have been awarded both of the Young Investigator Medals given within the Earth Sciences. She has been the recipient of three Fulbright Awards and in 2005, Popular Science named her one of the "Brilliant 10" young scientists in the United States. She currently resides in Oslo, Norway with her husband, their son, and their Chesapeake Bay Retriever dog.

find her on Twitter: @HopeJahren

and via her blog: www.hopejahrensurecanwrite.com

书友短评：

@ lieerli Hope is what I call "The Sociopath", advisors who don't advise but instead manipulate, w/ no respect for students as humans. She proudly described how every new recruit was tasked with labeling hundreds of vials and she would dump the vials into the garbage to gauge their reaction, as a test. I'm pretty sure that's called "hazing", not "advising". @ 光明小卖部? 大概是我的英文水平不够完美，好几次觉得作者的文笔不够简洁，经常会让我读到某句卡壳再重复一遍，读着有点累人，读到50%才慢慢有了兴趣。作者研究的是植物，可是一开始读我怎么觉得她研究还是挺杂的，为了申请经费似乎并不是和植物很相关的也会研究。为了生活为了科研基金作者也不得不妥协去讨好人，学会社交，虽然从作者的描述看她应该是个很单纯的人。作者服用多种精神类药物我也印象深刻，怀孕前期因为停服会有些错乱，好在孩子无碍。对Bill作者有一种亏欠的想法，因为她觉得后面他俩一人负担一半工作，而她却比Bill收入高。—论学历的重要性啊！总觉得Bill这个人物和作者在一起，有很大的混淆性。旁观者清，作者是把Bill当成兄弟，也许人家不是那样想的。 @ Dr.Mommy 地铁和每天散步的时间听完了。没有Educated那样让我共情大概是因为她和tara站的阶级很不一样？打动我的倒不是那些科研试验，而是她岔开提到的人生枝节：写自己生小孩后，“I used to pray to be made stronger but now I pray to be made grateful”、写同事比尔父亲突然离世，生生死死穿插其中，人真的就像woods and knots，一节节迎来衰败与新生。也喜欢她最后说，every book about plants is a story without ending.

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