Apprentice to Genius

The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

By: Robert Kanigel

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Paperback | 14 January 1994

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From the author of the best-selling The Man Who Knew Infinity, comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprentice relationship alive today in modern science. Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for more than forty years have made Nobel Prize-and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science. He brilliantly captures the drama of fine minds and explosice personalities at work-whether Bernard Brodie and Julius Axelrod discovering a new wonder drug called Tylenol or Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert unlocking the chemical secrets of the brain. And as we watch ideas debated, expierments working and failing, careers and relationships tested, and professional honors lost and won, we see close up all that is so deeply human in the practice of science. In a new epilogue to this edition, Kanigel brings us up-to-date on the lives and careers of these unforgettable personalities.

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Introduction	p. ix
Nobel Laureate	p. 1
A Wartime Urgency	p. 13
Steve Brodie, Methyl Orange, and the New Pharmacology	p. 31
Brodie and Axelrod: "Let's Take a Flier on It"	p. 48
Building 3: "All He had to Do Was Whistle"	p. 66
Separate Ways	p. 90
Julie's Lab	p. 110
The Golden Era	p. 132
Johns Hopkins	p. 153
The Opiate Receptor: "Just Get Hysterical and Do It"	p. 171
The Lasker Flap	p. 202
The Mentor Chain	p. 227
1985	p. 241
Epilogue: 1993	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 273
Index	p. 275
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