But pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe repeats a more memorable tale while writing a post about a book called Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.

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They offered to see me and I said 'yes please' - I'm very happy to sit in front of them and explain the process of writing this book and why I did it.

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Writing, on the other hand, continued to make me happy.

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He's writing it on a laptop computer which he brought with him, but said he's not happy with it yet and might do some work on it this week.

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