By John R. Helliwell
Being, or eager to develop into, a scientist calls for educational education within the technological know-how topics. To be successful as a study scientist and educator calls for particular in addition to normal abilities. Skills for a systematic Life offers perception into easy methods to be triumphant. This occupation ebook is meant for power entrants, early profession and mid-career scientists for a variety of technological know-how disciplines.
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Which editor to select? Never pick a friend or a colleague; it is an easy way to risk losing your friend. Pick someone who gave you an impression of being fair and level-headed when you met them at a conference or heard them give a seminar. Also, by talking to your colleagues, they will likely recommend one to you who has a longstanding good reputation of being a fair editor in your field. The article drafting: The whole text is important but getting the title and the abstract right is critical.
Sir Ron’s letter described other senior scientists’ views of the matter as controversial. There was no controversy in my mind that this was a good, indeed, great idea. Pretty much everyone I met did not believe this. In fact, at my DPhil interview, one of my interviewers actually stated that there was no point in my joining this research field as a physicist as the existing methods were just fine. I do not really know why I was not put off, but rather regarded it as some sort of odd, eccentric person I had met.
This was obviously highly oversubscribed, clearly fulfilling a need! With a colleague, I received one of these awards; the proposal success rate was only 1 in 30! I only ever made one complaint to a funding agency research manager about the handling of a research grant proposal I had made. There were six referees’ reports, all except one were very favourable, which stated, ‘I don’t care how the protein crystal structure is going to be solved, and too much of the proposal is devoted to that, indicating that there is a worry that it cannot be carried out’.