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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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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

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

Apprentice to Genius The Making of a Scientific

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 December 1993
      ISBN-13 9780801847578
      978-0801847578
      ISBN-10 0801847575
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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

      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

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