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Happy Accidents.


Happy Accidents

Morton A. Meyers, MD

Arcade Publishing Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. They are publishers of American and world literature and non-fiction. Their distinguished list of authors include Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Ismail Kadare, Leslie Marmon Silko,  

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HAPPY ACCIDENTS: SERENDIPITY serendipity

happy finding of an unexpected object or solution while searching for something else.
 IN MODERN MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS tells of happy accidental discoveries in the world of science, documenting events and also providing insights into how these accidents came to be realized as beneficial. It's this perspective which makes HAPPY ACCIDENTS a highly recommended pick not just for general interest lending libraries, but for college-level collections strong in health science. Learning to recognize and assess unexpected and accidental results for their possible lessons and benefits is key to any researcher's success: the author draws on both personal experience and research and interviews with winners of the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above.  in Medicine and other awards to document this process of discovery.
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