Beginning as an ignorant young man from the provinces, I entered science after a series of tortuous switchbacks in other directions and eventually slipped in through the back door, almost inadvertently. I took several wrong paths, and research apprenticeships with a menagerie of mentors taught me how not to do experimental biology. In my thirties, I found a marvelous mentor, and began a career as an independent scientist. Thereafter, I directed a productive research lab, taught students and postdocs and, for almost a decade, chaired an academic department in a first-rate biomedical research institution. I met with both failure and success, but over the long run, amounting to 40 years, experimental biology gave me immense satisfaction, amazing joy, and a full life, in and out of science.

Get to know this brilliant mind as he shares his memoir and his story. Author Henry Bourne tells his Ambition and Delight of the interesting world of science.

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