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 m...
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.
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 prom...
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.
Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. It has also convinced me that carefully writing everything down is the only real defense we have against forgetting something important that once was. (查看原文)
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0 有用 失败练习中 2022-04-09 15:07:46
特别喜欢开头，童年呆在爸爸实验室的时光，童话一样
0 有用 Double Helix 2018-05-31 21:49:25
实验室工作的礼赞
2 有用 Ann 2020-08-01 21:02:59
纸版读了好久都读不进去，买了有声书听完了，1.5倍速正好。作者自己读的，情至深处多次哽咽。她对学生确实比较奇葩，但是她自己也承认，她根本不在意teaching，只喜欢做研究和写作。她的文笔精准美妙，有不少自怨自艾，但感觉都是她的真实想法。我觉得她的bipolar disorder非常影响她的生活和人际，甚至不觉得她多么爱自己的孩子，只有和Bill惺惺相惜。
0 有用 未时 2022-12-27 23:24:57 美国
好会写！能感受到作者是个非常非常driven和passionate的科学家，对科研和植物的爱也是力透纸背（看了其他评论“幸好没遇到这样的导师”并举例说明，才恍悟“oh我看书的时候完全没往这方面想”，也是啊，人们会期待从“教育工作者”“合作者”这些身份里看到更多care和kindness吧，anyway，人各有志，人各有quirk，人无完人…）
1 有用 聿悠奇 2020-01-04 00:10:51
作者足够真诚。读者可以发现 HJ 这位科学家的可爱和可厌之处。透过她的视角，植物美得惊心动魄。