Success and Creativity in Scientific Research

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How to Win the Nobel Prize and Change the World

This book has aimed to point you towards skills and habits that can make your creative research career more successful and, just as importantly, more satisfying. The motivations people have for pursuing research vary widely. It is rare, however, for researchers to devote months or years to a problem that they know is obscure and to hope that no one in their professional community or elsewhere will ever care about their results. Instead, almost every researcher hopes that someone somewhere will care about their work and perhaps even use their results in a positive way.

The ideas in this concluding chapter are adapted from the book A Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize by Peter Doherty, ...