Download or read book Footsteps in Science written by Jack Harold Upton Brown and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a scientific 'biography' of one person's methods and approaches to science. The book is divided into two sections: the first is a description of how a particular facet of science was developed and the results which emerged. The second is a partial autobiography to fit the events of the author's life into the experimental development outlined in the first section. Contents: From Ideas to Implementation; Birth of a New Science; Applied Biochemistry; Industrial Research; Emergency Application of Space Science; Researching Together; Publish or Perish; In the Beginning; Low on the Academic Totem Pole; Professor; Promotion and Politics; Education; Academic Honors; Perigrinations and Personalities; Inventions.