Science as autobiography the troubled life of Niels Jerne /
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix
- A Note on the Translation xiii
- Introduction: A Scientist in His Life's Project xv
- PART I: The Making of a Romantic Character (1911-1947) 1
- 1. "I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived" 3
- 2. "Stylistically, I'm Best at Irony" 16
- 3. "I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn't Be Used" 29
- 4. "I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist" 39
- 5. "When I Look at Other Scientists None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have" 52
- 6. "Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor" 63
- 7. "To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths of My Own Soul" 75
- 8. "I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed" 88 9. "Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of Woman" 96
- Part II: The Making of the Selection Theory (1947-1954) 109
- 10. "The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People" 111
- 11. "I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology" 124
- 12. "Antibody This, Antibody That, They Weren't Really Much Interested" 133
- 13. "These People Don't Know What They're Doing" 144
- 14. "I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something" 156
- Parabasis: The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession 173
- Part III: A Man, His Theory, and His Network (1954-1994) 191
- 15. "My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself" 193
- 16. "This Theory Hadn't Made Much of a Stir, So Now, What Was I to Do?" 209
- 17. "I'd Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology" 217
- 18. "Finally, My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies" 233
- 19. "Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake" 249
- 20. "I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better" 267
- 21. "Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278
- Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292
- Abbreviations Used in Notes 297
- Notes 299
- Unpublished Sources 329
- Bibliography 331
- Index 351.