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This book is the first of Butrous foundation’s Journeys Trilogy. The
three volumes are particularly for those aged 12 to 20 who are
inspired to have careers in science or to use the path of science in
other careers. It is to “mentor in print” these young people that we
undertook the creation and publication of this trilogy. Reading this
first book is a journey, that starts on this page and ends on the
last one, having taken you, Young Scientist, to hundreds of amazing
“places,” like nanotechnology, Song Dynasty China, machines the
length of football fields, and orchids that detest wasps. But the
best reason to take the journey through these pages is that this
book will help you prepare for all your other journeys. Some of
these will be physical ones, from place to place, such as to
scientific conferences. Others will be professional journeys, like
from Botany to Astrobiology, or from lab intern to assistant to
researcher to lab director. But the main ones, the most exciting of
all your journeys, will be into the Great Unknown. That is where all
the undiscovered elements are, as well as all other inhabited
planets and every new species, plus incredible things like
communication with dolphins in their own language, and technological
innovations that will make today’s cutting-edge marvels seem like
blunt Stone Age implements
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The
Journeys Trilogy
Thirty-one years ago, Sir Peter Medawar wrote
Advice to a Young Scientist, a wonderful book
directed to university students. The Butrous
Foundation’s Journeys Trilogy is particularly for
those aged 12 to 20 who are inspired to have careers
in science or to use the path of science in other
careers.
Young Scientist Journeys (Volume 1)
Young scientists of the past talk to today’s
young scientists about the future. The authors were
members of the Student Science Society in high
school in Thailand in the 1960s, and now, near their
own 60s, they share the most important things they
learned about science specifically and life
generally during their own young scientist journeys
in the years since they published The SSS Bulletin,
a scientific journal for the International School
Bangkok.
My Science Roadmaps (Volume 2)
The findings of journeys into key science issues,
this volume is a veritable treasure map of “clues”
that lead a young scientist to a successful and
fulfilling career, presented within the context of
the wisdom of the great gurus and teachers of the
past in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Great Science Journeys (Volume 3)
An elite gathering of well-known scientists
reflect on their own journeys that resulted not only
in personal success but also in the enrichment of
humanity, including Akira Endo, whose discovery as a
young scientist of statins has saved countless
millions of lives.
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