Tips to a young scientist

Sir Peter Brian Medavar (1915-1987) - the largest British biologist of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize laureate, one of the founders of modern transplantology. The scientist, like Caesar in the famous Roman saying, is "just a person." Scientists, like all other representatives of mankind, go to work every day and return home, experience ordinary human feelings and emotions. Peter Medavar turns precisely to the practical, everyday side of the life of people involved in research activities or only preparing to enter this path. How to choose a suitable sphere of research? How to avoid excessive “scientific fanaticism”, which can negatively affect family life or relations with a loved one?

How, finally, not to succumb to despair, when a theory that seemed unshakable suffers a crushing failure, and the study again and again does not lead to the desired result? And these are only a few important questions to which the medavar gives answers in his wonderful, smart and complete good humor book.