"Lab Girl" Author: [US] Hope J.L. Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

The translator of The Origin of Species, Mr. Miao Desui, wrote a heartfelt preface

Barack Obama recommended

Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People

Notes on the journey of growing towards the light with plants

Everyone who has experienced determination and hesitation on the road of scientific research,

As a result, you will gain a unique life without a template to follow.

◎ Editor's Recommendation

Memoir of life + Friendship Memory Book + Scientific Research Notebook - Geobiologist Hope Jerron uses a literary pen to record the anxiety, frustration, loss and gain on the academic road, which is different or not different because of gender. She engraved the secret of "how to be a scientist" in the leaves, soil and seeds that inspired her mind, and taught you to learn to "be both hands-on and attentive" in the field of scientific research, in daily life, and in love - trial and error, harvest, and then move on.

◎ Introduction

In the 1880s, Hope Jerron's great-grandparents followed the wave of immigration at that time and rushed from Norway to a small town in Minnesota, USA. In this place with long and cold winters, they joined the slaughtering assembly line that seemed to never stop and worked silently. By the time of Hope's parents' generation, they were no longer directly employed by the slaughterhouse. Although like many Nordic families, Hope has long been accustomed to the daily life of being with her family in silence, her stubborn mother who refused to compromise with fate and her generous and open-minded father gave her the imagination and courage to choose another life.

Growing up in the laboratory where her father worked, studying, working, obtaining a degree, and getting a teaching position in a research laboratory, and then building her own laboratory from scratch, Hope Jearon's friendship and love, her life experience, and career development recorded in this work with a strong autobiographical nature can no longer be separated from the "laboratory". Plants grow toward the light, and so do people. Hope chose science because science provides her with what she needs, gives her a home, and a place where she feels at ease. The American blue spruce, which was only separated from her by a window in her childhood and taught her perseverance and self-discipline, the American hollyhock, which helped her complete her transformation and achieve her first independent scientific discovery, and the foxtail palm, which has been training with her future professional baseball player, her son, after she got married, all these trees have recorded their own memories in the silent course of time, giving Hope natural eyes to understand the world and herself.

◎ Celebrity recommendation

☆Female tenderness will make scientific research life more vibrant, female tenacity will make scientific research easier to grow, and female meticulousness will protect the scientific research path to emit a brighter brilliance. Gender should never be a barrier in the scientific research circle, just as every plant on earth can show its natural beauty.

——Shi Jun, PhD in Botany, popular science writer

Hope Jerron's Lab Girl is a beautifully written memoir about women in science, a wonderful friendship, and the profound lessons of trees. Excellent.

—Barack Obama

◎ Media Recommendation

☆Lab Girl not only records Hope's experience of growing up as a mature scientist, but is also a hymn to plants. The description of the strange and secret life of plants in the book seems to be directly derived from the biological process of Hope's own memories, and the structure is exquisite. A dazzling work.

—Harriet Baker, TLS

☆The geobiologist's vision covers almost all disciplines, from soil science, geology, atmospheric science to botany. Jie Lun is good at all of them. When she narrates her own experiences, she often humorously links Charles Dickens, EE Cummings and Harper Lee, and also counts every vein of the leaves with a light touch... Jie Lun's work is about observing the world with eyes, hands and heart. Excellent.

—Carolyn Beans, American Scientist

☆Jie Lun is a scientist who spends three seasons of the year digging in the Arctic peatlands, and in between her busy work schedule, she will go with her lab team to visit strange attractions chosen by everyone, or patiently wait for her team to carefully cook camping food - even if it lasts until midnight. "Lab Girl" is a funny work, full of happy moments, but also often reveals sadness. But putting aside all the difficulties and obstacles, Jie Lun obviously would not choose a second career outside of science.

—Jennifer Rohn, Nature

☆A biologist's personal nature journal, vigorous and exciting. Jalen's writing is like a more literary Oliver Sacks. She is very good at clearly describing how scientific research is carried out. When describing her lab partner Bill, Jalen's writing reaches another dimension. A precise description given by a scientist who loves words. She is a keen observer and makes people laugh.

——Elizabeth Reutte, ELLE

☆ "Lab Girl" provides readers with not only the pleasure of reading, but also shows the daily life of scientific research, which is a steady stream of progress rather than a sudden and rapid progress. Scientists move forward on the road of knowledge, stepping on a stone at a time.

—Eugenia Bone, The Wall Street Journal

◎ Award record

AAAS Science Book of the Year

National Book Review Board Biography Award

New York Times Bestseller

One of The New York Times' 100 Most Anticipated Books of 2016

Books of the Year by The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Entertainment Weekly

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