Apprentice To Genius (the Making Of A Scientific Dynasty)

By (author) Kanigel Robert; By (author) Robert Kanigel
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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.
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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.
Table of contents

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

Review quote
A beguiling combination of sociological and scientific scholarship, straight reporting and titillating voyeurism. Isis Making extensive use of interviews and anecdote, Kanigel depicts how, in a mentor-to-protege chain starting with James Shannon and moving to Bernard Brodie and then to Julius Axelrod, the legacy of creativity and empirical style has passed to Snyder and then to Pert. Science As compelling as a Jackie Collins novel, though with bigger words. Chicago Tribune
Biographical note
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.