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Lab Girl.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Copyright date: 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 290 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781101873724
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Lab girl.DDC classification:
  • 580.92 B 23
LOC classification:
  • QH31.J344 A3 2016
NLM classification:
  • Q 143 .J253
Other classification:
  • BIO015000 | BIO022000 | SCI008000 | NAT026000 | BIO026000
  • cci1icc
  • coll13
Contents:
Prologue -- Roots and leaves -- Wood and knots -- Flowers and fruit -- Epilogue.
Awards:
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2017
Summary: Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.
List(s) this item appears in: 2020 - 2021 New Titles
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QH31 .J344 .A3 2016 1 Checked out 12/02/2025 50583020010843
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QH31 .J344 .A3 2016 2 Available 50583020017368
Total holds: 0

"A Borzoi Book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue -- Roots and leaves -- Wood and knots -- Flowers and fruit -- Epilogue.

Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.

National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2017

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