Youth and Scientific Innovation

Excerpt from Youth and Scientific Innovation: The Role of Young Scientists in the Development of a New Field When the octogenarian Johnny Kelley running in his sixty-first Boston Marathon crossed the finish line, those who witnessed the feat looked on with a mixture of astonishment and admiration. There is a general belief that, within the population as a whole, athletic ability deteriorates with age. Few would consider Kelley - not to mention the other contestants in the masters' division - as evidence to the contrary, even though most people less than half his age could not run even the first leg of the twenty - six mile race. The remarkable Kelley notwithstanding, that athletic contests favour youth is a widely held assumption that is hardly, if ever, seriously questioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.