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Most Popular Books by Michael BishopMichael Bishop is the author of No Enemy but Time (2022), Stolen Faces (1977), How to Win the Nobel Prize (2009), Funk to Funky (2009), Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1991).
release date: Aug 09, 2022
How to Win the Nobel Prize
release date: Jun 30, 2009
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. 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 Reviews of this book: 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 Reviews of this book: 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 Reviews of this book: 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 Reviews of this book: This is a treasure...Above all, How to Win the Nobel Prize is a civilised book and a lavishly rewarding one. --Roy Herbert, New Scientist Reviews of this book: 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 Reviews of this book: 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 J. Michael Bishop has written his book ''to show that scientists are supremely human.'' The book is also a lucid explanation of how science has been harnessed to fight the human afflictions of cancer and infectious disease. And the story ends with a wide-ranging overview of today''s challenges to the scientific enterprise. Overall, a must-read for all those interested in science and scientists--even those with absolutely no interest in winning a Nobel Prize! --Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences J. Michael Bishop is that rare scientist who is widely read in literature and poetry. Most importantly, he remembers what he reads and thinks deeply about it, as well as about all else in his rich life. The Nobel Prize he won and richly deserved, his political activism, his understanding of cancer and microbiology, his devotion to the practice of science--all these provide fodder for his writerly craft. Quite a wonderful book! --David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate and President, California Institute of Technology
release date: May 01, 2009
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
release date: Jan 01, 1991
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
release date: May 26, 2015
release date: Jan 01, 2017
Geographic Information Science and Mountain Geomorphology
release date: Jun 30, 2004
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
release date: Jan 01, 1994
Pierre Reverdy. A Bibliography. - (London): Grant & Cutler 1976. 88 S. 8°
Oceanography of the New York Bight
An Analytical Sea Current Model for Coastal Regions with Application to the New York Bight
A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals
release date: Nov 16, 2021
When Hip Hop Grew in Brooklyn
release date: Sep 14, 2022
release date: Aug 12, 2014
release date: Feb 01, 2011
release date: Jan 01, 2000
Earth and Mind: Dreaming, Writing, Being
release date: Jan 04, 2019
The Contemporary Poetry of France
release date: Jan 01, 1985
Contemporary French Women Poets: From Chedid and Dohollau to Tellermann and Bancquart
release date: Jan 01, 1995
release date: Dec 28, 2021
The Endless Theory of Days
release date: Jan 01, 2007
release date: Dec 09, 2020
Contemporary French Women Poets, Volume II
release date: Apr 24, 2023
Contemporary French Art 1
release date: Jan 01, 2008
Contemporary French Art 2
release date: May 01, 2011
Constitutional Conversations
release date: Jan 01, 2008
release date: Sep 29, 2011
release date: Mar 31, 2011
release date: Jan 01, 1989
Requiem pour Philip K. Dick
release date: Jan 01, 1997
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