ATRIUM: What mad pursuit, and other things
As mentioned, I am giving a talk tomorrow on research at ATRIUM (academic training in undergraduate medicine): how to get on and have some fun —assuming there is still some left to go around. Some of the references I cite are below:
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Crick, F. (1988). What mad pursuit : a personal view of scientific discovery (New York: Basic Books).
Feigenbaum, E.A. (2001). Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001. Science 291, 2107.
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Hubel, D.H. (2009). The way biomedical research is organized has dramatically changed over the past half-century: are the changes for the better? Neuron 64, 161-63.
Hubel, D.H., and Wiesel, T.N. (2004). Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration (OUP).
Pincock, S. (2007). Bjørn Aage Ibsen. The Lancet 370, 1538.
Pincock, S. (2008). Colin Murdoch. The Lancet 371, 1994.
Semm, T.A.K. (2003). a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery (Obituary). Br Med J 327, 397.
Tuffs, A. (2003). Kurt Semm. BMJ: British Medical Journal 327, 397.
Watson, J.D. (1993). Succeeding in science: some rules of thumb. Science 261, 1812-13.
Alan Kay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_kay
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