The Bourbaki Gambit

Djerassi, Carl

ISBN 10: 0820316520 / ISBN 13: 9780820316529

Published by University of Georgia Press, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

230 pp. A satire on the scientific community and the competition for a Nobel Prize in chemistry (by an award-winning Stanford University chemist). Inscribed by the author on the front fly-leaf. Seller Inventory # 2424EP

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Bourbaki Gambit

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Inscribed By the Author

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The story of four professors, forced to publish their collaborative work under a pseudonym because of age discrimination, depicts the conflicts that ensue when their project--the polymerase chain reaction--turns out to be a monumental scientific discovery. UP.

About the Authors:

Carl Djerassi is a professor of chemistry at Stanford University. His books include the novels The Bourbaki Gambit (Georgia, 1994) and Cantor's Dilemma; the autobiography The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse; and essay, short story, and poetry collections. Djerassi is the winner of the National Medal of Science in 1973 (for the synthesis of the first steroid oral contraceptive), the National Medal of Technology in 1991 (for novel approaches to insect control), and the 1992 Priestley Medal, the highest American award in chemistry. He is also the founder of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, an artists' colony near San Francisco that supports working artists in various disciplines.

Carl Djerassi is a professor of chemistry at Stanford University.