Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty - Softcover

Kanigel, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801847575 ISBN 13: 9780801847578

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From Library Journal:

Corporate mentors are well known. Less visible are the "mentor chains" that from generation to generation produce eminent scientists. Kanigel traces one such chain in neuroscience and neuropharmacology that accounts for such resarchers as Steve Brodie, Julius Axelrod, Sol Snyder, and Candace Pertall brilliant scientists whose relations are characterized by camaraderie, envy, and frustration. The author's thesis is that participation in elite science through mentor chains provides more than grants, access to laboratories, and awards. It instills the ability to critically and creatively strike at the heart of a research question. An exciting story of discovery that evenly handles the inevitable conflicts. Recommended. Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ. Lib., Blacksburg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0801847575
• ISBN 13: 9780801847578
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304