Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science Paperback - 2003
by Shane Crotty
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"A thoroughly researched, vivid, and accessible portrait of one of the towering intellectual figures of our time, David Baltimore: his life, his politics, his driving ambition, his stunning self-confidence."--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis, National Book Award Nominee
"A fascinating history of the life and science of one of the twentieth century's most important scientists. What drove Baltimore to a Nobel Prize, the establishment of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and the presidency of both Rockefeller and Caltech? This first book by a promising young writer provides a large part of the story."--Phillip A. Sharp, 1993 Nobel Prize winner and Cancer Institute Professor, MIT
"This is the story of one of the most extraordinary lives in science today. David Baltimore has done Nobel-prize-winning work on viruses and cancer, he has led three of the world's great centers of biological research, and he has endured a tragicomic Star Chamber trial in Washington, a trial in which the nature of science and politics were illuminated in harsh and sometimes glary lights. I hope an Arthur Miller or a Jonathan Miller reads this book, registers the drama of this story, and puts it on the stage."--Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch
"I enjoyed the book immensely. Shane Crotty writes with the drive and energy characteristic of his subject, David Baltimore, capturing the pulse of the life and times of a great scientist whose life has not only been spiked with the exhilaration of scientific discovery, but enmeshed in public science policy and politics and concerned with the building of great institutions."--Thomas Cech, Nobel laureate and President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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- Title Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science
- Author Shane Crotty
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2003-06-01
- ISBN 9780520239043 / 0520239040
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
- Reading level 1170
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00-051170
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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