Title: In the Secret of Living Beings - Journey of a Biologist - Nicole Le Douarin - book
Summary :
Bernard Pivot: It's true that you are amazing!
Nicole Le Douarin: I had no complexes, I dared.
This is the story of a little girl from Brittany who became a great lady of biology. Nicole Le Douarin, a sought-after academic worldwide, professor at the Collège de France, and CNRS gold medalist, recounts her astonishing personal adventure for the first time in a unique scientific memoir.
Born into a modest background, encouraged by her schoolteacher mother, she never stopped wanting to enter the world that fascinated her: research. Passionate, she managed to convince laboratory directors and university presidents—previously reluctant to hire women—to let her carry out her embryology experiments, explained here in a very educational manner. They would bring her international recognition. Chimeras, clones, stem cells... None of these major advances were foreign to her.
The reader then discovers the scientific intuitions and immense perseverance of the biologist, and enters with her into the little-known behind-the-scenes of research. In an unexpected way, Nicole Le Douarin even makes us feel how "liberating" science is! As her two great friends, the philosopher Mona Ozouf and the historian Michelle Perrot, write in their admiring preface, the reader is invited to meet a true "princess of science."
In the secret of living beings was voted best science book of 2012 by the editors of Read .
