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    CANDID SCIENCE II
    Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists

    by István Hargittai & edited by Magdolna Hargittai

    Table of Contents (45k)
    Foreword (65k)
    Preface (65k)
    Chapter 1: James D. Watson (1,794k)

    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.

     
    Contents:
    • James D Watson
    • Maclyn McCarty
    • Joshua Lederberg
    • Arthur Kornberg
    • Frederick Sanger
    • François Jacob
    • Walter Gilbert
    • Benno Müller-Hill
    • Marshall W Nirenberg
    • Daniel Nathans
    • Paul Berg
    • Kary B Mullis
    • Gerald M Edelman
    • César Milstein
    • Alfred G Gilman
    • Günter Blobel
    • George K Radda
    • Max F Perutz
    • Richard Henderson
    • Aaron Klug
    • John T Finch
    • Sidney Altman
    • Edward B Lewis
    • Rita Levi-Montalcini
    • Lars Ernster
    • Torvard C Laurent
    • George Klein
    • D Carleton Gajdusek
    • Charles Weissmann
    • Frederick C Robbins
    • Rosalyn Yalow
    • James W Black
    • K Sune D Bergström
    • John R Vane
    • Salvador Moncada
    • Robert F Furchgott
     
    Readership: Biomedical scientists, biochemists, and general readers.
     
    “The book is easy to read … Overall, they give an accurate flavor of biomedical research …”
    Choice
     
    “The present selection of interviews gives a cross section covering a broad range of topics, personalities, and circumstances of recording. I agree with Hargittai's evaluation and heartily recommend his book, suitable for both complete reading or browsing, to biomedical scientists, biochemists, chemists, historians of chemistry and or science, and general readers interested in the 'inside story' of the workings of 20th-century science.”
    The Chemical Educator
     
    “I heartily recommend this book, suitable for both complete reading or browsing, to biomedical scientists, biochemists, chemists, historians of chemistry and of science generally, and general readers interested in the 'inside story' of the workings of 20th-century science.”
    Chemical Heritage
     
    616pp    Pub. date: Mar 2002  
    ISBN:   978-1-86094-280-8
    1-86094-280-6
       US$118 / £78

     


    616pp    Pub. date: Mar 2002  
    ISBN:   978-1-86094-288-4(pbk)
    1-86094-288-1(pbk)
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    616pp    Pub. date: Mar 2002  
    ISBN:   978-1-86094-454-3(ebook)
    1-86094-454-X(ebook)
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