How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) - Softcover

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Bishop, J. Michael

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9780674016255: How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
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ISBN 10: 0674016254 ISBN 13: 9780674016255
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2004

Synopsis

In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, How to Win the Nobel Prize is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer.

Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial enemies--the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, HIV--and by biographical sketches of the scientists who led the fight against these scourges.

Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of many of today's most important science-related controversies--ranging from stem cell research to the attack on evolution to scientific misconduct. How to Win the Nobel Prize affords us the pleasure of hearing about science from a brilliant practitioner who is a humanist at heart. Bishop's perspective will be valued by anyone interested in biomedical research and in the past, present, and future of the battle against cancer.

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About the Author

J. Michael Bishop, M.D., is Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674016254
ISBN 13 
9780674016255
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
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