Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty - Hardcover

Kanigel, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025606506 ISBN 13: 9780025606500

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1986

Synopsis

Exploring a chain of mentor relationships in one dynasty of prize-winning scientists, this book offers an account of the friendship, rivalries, and Nobel Prize ambition which characterize the creative collaborations of scientific breakthroughs

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Kanigel is a professional science writer. His recent book, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, was a national bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for biography in 1992.

From Library Journal:

Corporate mentors are well known. Less visible are the "mentor chains" that from generation to generation produce eminent scientists. Kanigel traces one such chain in neuroscience and neuropharmacology that accounts for such resarchers as Steve Brodie, Julius Axelrod, Sol Snyder, and Candace Pertall brilliant scientists whose relations are characterized by camaraderie, envy, and frustration. The author's thesis is that participation in elite science through mentor chains provides more than grants, access to laboratories, and awards. It instills the ability to critically and creatively strike at the heart of a research question. An exciting story of discovery that evenly handles the inevitable conflicts. Recommended. Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ. Lib., Blacksburg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0025606506
• ISBN 13: 9780025606500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271