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How to Win the Nobel Prize
J. Michael Bishop
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Paperback. In 1989, J. 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 reveals how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27 halftones, 8 line illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674016255
SKU
V9780674016255
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About J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop, M.D., is Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco.
Reviews for How to Win the Nobel Prize
Despite his book's encouraging title, Bishop
who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1989
cautions that I have not written an instruction manual for pursuit of the prize. Instead, he has written an amiable reflection on the experience of being a Nobelist, intertwined with some history and anecdotes about the award, and balanced by a wide-ranging review of his own career as an accidental scientist ...Along the way, Bishop reflects on the history of our knowledge of microbes, cancer, the politics of funding research and present-day disenchantment with science. His main purpose in writing this book, Bishop says, is to show that scientists are supremely human
which he does with grace and charm. Publishers Weekly 20030418 How to Win the Nobel Prize is typical Bishop: modest, funny, insightful and offering an extremely clear and brief explanation of the basic scientific achievement that won the 1989 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for himself and longtime colleague, Harold Varmus, now president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
David Perlman San Francisco Chronicle 20030907 In these pages Bishop reveals himself as a good writer blessed with enviable clarity, someone sensible and levelheaded who likes people and is enamored of his science.
John Tyler Bonner New York Times Book Review 20031019 At its heart this analysis of science and the scientific world is a jewel. How to Win the Nobel Prize is an inspirational book, full of careful analysis and judgement.
John Oxford Times Higher Education Supplement 20040220 Bishop is a gifted communicator and teacher, and he sets about his task of educating scientists and the public by describing his career in science and science politics...In the end, Bishop's book provides a road map for scientists and the public to build a robust scientific community that serves our society well.
Andreas Trumpp and Daniel Kalman Nature Cell Biology 20040301 This book is a highly readable compilation of narratives by an erudite and eloquent biomedical scientist, Michael Bishop...This biographical sketch is replete with wise advice to young scientists (the importance of luck, timing patronage, resolve, and risk-taking)-and also very insightful about alternative routes to scientific discovery.
Mel Greaves Journal of the History of Medicine
who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1989
cautions that I have not written an instruction manual for pursuit of the prize. Instead, he has written an amiable reflection on the experience of being a Nobelist, intertwined with some history and anecdotes about the award, and balanced by a wide-ranging review of his own career as an accidental scientist ...Along the way, Bishop reflects on the history of our knowledge of microbes, cancer, the politics of funding research and present-day disenchantment with science. His main purpose in writing this book, Bishop says, is to show that scientists are supremely human
which he does with grace and charm. Publishers Weekly 20030418 How to Win the Nobel Prize is typical Bishop: modest, funny, insightful and offering an extremely clear and brief explanation of the basic scientific achievement that won the 1989 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for himself and longtime colleague, Harold Varmus, now president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
David Perlman San Francisco Chronicle 20030907 In these pages Bishop reveals himself as a good writer blessed with enviable clarity, someone sensible and levelheaded who likes people and is enamored of his science.
John Tyler Bonner New York Times Book Review 20031019 At its heart this analysis of science and the scientific world is a jewel. How to Win the Nobel Prize is an inspirational book, full of careful analysis and judgement.
John Oxford Times Higher Education Supplement 20040220 Bishop is a gifted communicator and teacher, and he sets about his task of educating scientists and the public by describing his career in science and science politics...In the end, Bishop's book provides a road map for scientists and the public to build a robust scientific community that serves our society well.
Andreas Trumpp and Daniel Kalman Nature Cell Biology 20040301 This book is a highly readable compilation of narratives by an erudite and eloquent biomedical scientist, Michael Bishop...This biographical sketch is replete with wise advice to young scientists (the importance of luck, timing patronage, resolve, and risk-taking)-and also very insightful about alternative routes to scientific discovery.
Mel Greaves Journal of the History of Medicine