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PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-100801847575

ISBN-139780801847578

eBay Product ID (ePID)19447

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Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameApprentice to Genius : the Making of a Scientific Dynasty

Publication Year1993

SubjectInventions, Pharmacology, History

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

AuthorRobert Kanigel

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Science, Medical

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN93-005669

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"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, A beguiling combination of sociological and scientific scholarship, straight reporting and titillating voyeurism., 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.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal615.1072073

Edition DescriptionReprint

Table Of ContentIntroduction 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

SynopsisFrom the author of the best-selling The Man Who Knew Infinity, comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprentice relationship alive today in modern science. 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 more than forty years have made Nobel Prize-and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science. He brilliantly captures the drama of fine minds and explosice personalities at work-whether Bernard Brodie and Julius Axelrod discovering a new wonder drug called Tylenol or Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert unlocking the chemical secrets of the brain. And as we watch ideas debated, expierments working and failing, careers and relationships tested, and professional honors lost and won, we see close up all that is so deeply human in the practice of science. In a new epilogue to this edition, Kanigel brings us up-to-date on the lives and careers of these unforgettable personalities., 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.

LC Classification NumberRM301.25.K36 1993