Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

From the author of the best-selling The Man Who Knew Infinity, comes an unprecedented look at the...
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Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Kanigel, Robert

Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

BD$80.87

Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

BD$80.87
Author: Robert Kanigel
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From the author of the best-selling The Man Who Knew Infinity, comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprentice relationship alive today in modern science. 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 more than forty years have made Nobel Prize-and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science. He brilliantly captures the drama of fine minds and explosice personalities at work-whether Bernard Brodie and Julius Axelrod discovering a new wonder drug called Tylenol or Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert unlocking the chemical secrets of the brain. And as we watch ideas debated, expierments working and failing, careers and relationships tested, and professional honors lost and won, we see close up all that is so deeply human in the practice of science. In a new epilogue to this edition, Kanigel brings us up-to-date on the lives and careers of these unforgettable personalities.



Author: Robert Kanigel
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 5.78h x 8.46w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780801847578

About the Author

Robert Kanigel is a professional science writer. His most 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.


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