Apprentice to Genius

The Making of a Scientific Dynasty
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4757-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kanigel, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Erfindungen und Erfinder 
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kanigel, Robert
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.

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.