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What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. He explores these scientists' shifting perceptions of their jobs to uncover the meanings they invest in their work, when and where they find satisfaction, how they succeed and fail, and how the rhythms of their work change as they age. His candid interviews with hi

Physics --- Physicists --- Physics as a profession --- Physical scientists --- Vocational guidance. --- Social aspects. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Dialogue analysis --- Storytelling --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Analysis of dialogue --- DA (Interpersonal communication) --- Interpersonal communication --- Oral communication --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Social aspects --- Performance