Chernin Eli (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; translated from the Russian; fading and shelf wear to exterior; front board slightly bowed; previous owner's stamping on back end page; otherwise in good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. In-8° broché, 8 pages.

Condition: VG. Boston 1984. 8vo., 95pp., illus., wraps. Inscribed and signed by Chernin on the title page. VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 95 pp; illustrations. Original wrappers. The text block has come unglued from the wrappers. It can easily be reglued back into the wrappers, but for now I am leaving it the way it is. This probably happened because of all the items Weller stuffed into the book. First Edition. SIGNED BY ELI CHERNIN TO THOMAS WELLER: "To Tom Weller-/ with my admiration, respect, and affection./ On his 70th birthday,/ Eli Chernin/ 16 June 1985". Eli Chernin (1924-1990) was a Professor of Tropical Medicine in the Harvard School of Public Health and a colleague of Thomas Weller at Harvard from 1954-1981, the "Weller Years" of the title. A number of photographs of Thomas Weller have been reproduced on pp. 17-24. The book is offered with several original, or photocopied, letters relating to the book, as well as photocopied reviews of the book (photos of all the letters are available upon request). In his autobiography "Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures, Fifty Years in Academic Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology" (2004), Thomas Weller writes about Eli Chernin: "There is no greater responsbility for a departmental chair than to develop an outstanding faculty. It was my privilege to recruit an outstanding team. At the outset of my tenure in 1954, the Department consisted of me and three senior colleagues. . . . [one of the three was] Eli Chernin, a medical and experimental parasitologist, who was my first new recruit to the Department" (p. 185). Weller also wrote about Chernin: "Ludlow Manufacturing and Sales Compnay . . . wanted a parasitological survey done of its work force. Since there was no one available to undertake the job, Eli Chernin, who had just received his doctoral degree in parasitology at Johns Hopkins, was appointed a research associate and assigned to India for a year. After his return . . ., he began to work with me evenings at the Children's [Hospital] studying the growth of Toxoplasma gondii in tissue cultures. . . . I was impressed with Chernin's diligence and investigative interests" (p. 182). John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.". Signed by Author(s).