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How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

by J Michael Bishop

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In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, How to Win the Nobel Prize is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer.

Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial enemies--the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, HIV--and by biographical sketches of the scientists who led the fight against these scourges.

Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of many of today's most important science-related controversies--ranging from stem cell research to the attack on evolution to scientific misconduct. How to Win the Nobel Prize affords us the pleasure of hearing about science from a brilliant practitioner who is a humanist at heart. Bishop's perspective will be valued by anyone interested in biomedical research and in the past, present, and future of the battle against cancer.

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In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fastpaced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters.

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About the Author

J. Michael Bishop, M.D., is Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. The Phone Call

2. Accidental Scientist

3. People and Pestilence

4. Opening the Black Box of Cancer

5. Paradoxical Strife

Notes

Credits

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780674008809

Subtitle:

An Unexpected Life in Science

Author:

Bishop, J Michael

Author:

Bishop, J. Michael

Author:

Bishop

Publisher:

Harvard University Press

Location:

Cambridge, Mass.

Subject:

General

Subject:

General science

Subject:

History

Subject:

United states

Subject:

Research

Subject:

Nobel prizes

Subject:

Oncogenes

Subject:

Medical scientists.

Subject:

Personal Memoirs

Subject:

Scientists - General

Copyright:

2003

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures

Series Volume:

7

Publication Date:

January 2003

Binding:

Hardback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

27 halftones, 8 line illustrations

Pages:

288

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.5 x 5/8 in

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"Synopsis" by Libri, In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fastpaced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters.