Moving Up

Abstract

Dr. Arthur G. Hoechst,* a flamboyant aggressive near-genius, backed by a large research team, is a certified “authority” in the expanding field of genetic modification; Professor Walter W. Woodside, a superb organic chemist, diplomatic and politically astute, participates actively in several panels of the National Academy of Sciences; Dr. Lemuel R. Groveland, introspective, introverted, and laboratory-oriented, has just received a regional award for contributions to understanding the nutrition of wood-eating cockroaches; and Dr. Alan W. Castell, high-energy physicist, has ongoing projects and collaborators at research centers in several countries. These four people are superficially disparate in every way but one—they seem to be succeeding as scientists.

The “Method” of the Scientific Method; The Origin of Research Ideas; Experimentation and Observation; Conclusions and Syntheses; Communicating Research Results