Apprentice to Genius

The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

Robert Kanigel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

1993
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-4757-8 (ISBN)

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Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science.

Robert Kanigel is a professional science writer. His recent book, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, was a national bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for biography in 1992.

Introduction
1. Nobel Laureate
2. A Wartime Urgency
3. Steve Brodie, Methyl Orange, and the New Pharmacology
4. Brodie and Axelrod: "Let's Take a Flier on It"
5. Building 3: "All He Had to Do Was Whistle"
6. Separate Ways
7. Julie's Lab
8. The Golden Era
9. Johns Hopkins
10. The Opiate Receptor: "Just Get Hysterical and Do It"
11. The Lasker Flap
12. The Mentor Chain
13. 1985
14. Epilogue: 1993
Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.12.1993
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8018-4757-5 / 0801847575
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-4757-8 / 9780801847578
Zustand	Neuware