E l e k t r o g e r ä t e

Popular Science & Autobiography

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As researcher, I was initially disappointed that E, Kandel tones down the explanation of his research results. However, his autobiographic account of how he had to leave Vienna, challenged mainstream research successfully several times in a row, and ended up getting the nobel prize for his work, is a great inspiration for researchers everywhere. There is also a short mention of Cancellor Schüssel, and Mayor Häupl - one of them in a positive, the other one in a negative way. We Austrians clearly were idiots to throw him out, and in no way can his nobel prize be construed an Austrian nobel prize.

If you are someone with no strong background in Science and want to know how basic research is done in practice, this book is for you. More technical readers will be disappointed, but that is to be expected. You should read his other books instead, or best the papers he has published.