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What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? In this title, the author asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country.

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Lives in Science How Institutions Affect Academic

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226005645, 978-0226005645
      ISBN10: 022600564X
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      Book Synopsis
      What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? In this title, the author asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country.

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      "To take the surprise out of the territory ahead, anyone hoping for an academic science career would be wise to consider the message of this thoughtful, solid, illuminating book." (Science)"

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