Candid Science Ii: Conversations With Famous Biomedical Scientists

by Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai

Overview

This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates. It presents a cross-section of biomedical science, a field that has been dominant in science for the past half century. The in-depth conversations cover important research areas and discoveries, as well as the roads to these discoveries, including aspects of the scientists' work that never saw publication. They also bring out the humanness of the famous scientists — the reader learns about their backgrounds, aspirations, failings, and triumphs. The book is illustrated with snapshots of the conversations and photos provided by the interviewees. It is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists, by the same author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860942808
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	03/20/2002
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	v
	Preface	vii
	James D. Watson	2
	Maclyn McCarty	16
	Joshua Lederberg	32
	Arthur Kornberg	50
	Frederick Sanger	72
	Francois Jacob	84
	Walter Gilbert	98
	Benno Muller-Hill	114
	Marshall W. Nirenberg	130
	Daniel Nathans	142
	Paul Berg	154
	Kary B. Mullis	182
	Gerald M. Edelman	196
	Cesar Milstein	220
	Alfred G. Gilman	238
	Gunter Blobel	252
	George K. Radda	266
	Max F. Perutz	280
	Richard Henderson	296
	Aaron Klug	306
	John T. Finch	330
	Sidney Altman	338
	Edward B. Lewis	350
	Rita Levi-Montalcini	364
	Lars Ernster	376
	Torvard C. Laurent	396
	George Klein	416
	D. Carleton Gajdusek	442
	Charles Weissmann	466
	Frederick C. Robbins	498
	Rosalyn Yalow	518
	James W. Black	524
	K. Sune D. Bergstrom	542
	John R. Vane	548
	Salvador Moncada	564
	Robert F. Furchgott	578
	Name Index	595

Editorial Reviews

Hargittai (chemistry, Budapest U. of Technology and Economics) published a volume of interviews with chemists in 2000, and projects another with chemists and one with physicists to complete the series. Here he interviews 36 scientists in various disciplines but working in biomedical fields. About half of the interviews have been published previously, some in shorter form. Only names are indexed. Distributed in the US by World Scientific. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)