The Struggles and Dreams of Robert Langer (Series in Structural Biology)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (666 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9814749044 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Langer is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shuguang Zhang said This is a wonderful book about one of the most cited scientists and. This is a wonderful book about one of the most cited scientists and engineers in history, Robert Langer. His scientific discoveries and inventions made an enormous economic impact not only to MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US but also to the rest of the world. Langer wrote a short and lucid autobiography to recount his ordinary childhood, and later extraordinary scientific achievements, mostly through his insatiable curiosity, creativity, taking unconventional path, persistence, strong passion for science, care about education and respect students and other people. Langer not only unleash his ow
. Langer is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
While he was pretty good at science, he was very good at math. Langer has pioneered many new technologies, including controlled release system and is regarded as the founder of tissue engineering in the field of regenerative medicine. This book provides a glimpse into the life and work of Robert Langer, an amazing scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. However, his success did not come easily. Langer's research laboratory at MIT is the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world. He struggled in the late 1970s and early 1980s because scientists, especially established scientists, did not believe in his research. To obtain his first patent, Langer scoured existing literature and found a paper published by five famous chemists and chemical engineers that said his results were surprising and went against conventional thinking. As a graduate student at MIT, he was involved in teaching underprivileged high school dropouts, his goal: to make math and science interesting.