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Discovery requires serendipity but serendipity is not a chance event alone. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Apr 25, 2007 last year, i was asked to write a chapter on innovation for an encyclopedia of medicinal chemistry. Serendipity in modern medical breakthroughs morton a. The science of happy accidents jon lasser, 20020220. While i am reading the book, i feel an urge to introduce this book to all readers of the korean journal of radiology. Read happy accidents serendipity in major medical breakthroughs in the twentieth century by morton a. For while we all know that a few medical breakthroughs have. Though within thescientific community a certain stigma is attached to chance discoverybecause it is wrongly seen as pure luck, happy accidents happen every dayand meyers shows how it takes intelligence. Meyers states, quite correctly, that maverick, outsidethebox thinking is unlikely to be accepted by peers who think within the accepted paradigms. Although the author does not take my drastic stochastic tinkering approach, he provides. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, xrays, valium, the pap smear, and viagra have in common. Serendipity in modern medical breakthroughswhen scientists find what theyre not looking for 2. Serendipity in modern medical breakthroughswhen scientists find what they are not looking for by morton meyers 2007 arcade publishing, new york.
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