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 over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker Award-winning
breakthroughs in biomedical science.
How many books are there which talk about scientific
mentoring? So very few. This book gives vivid portraits of how top-flight scientists pass down their "research genes" by mentoring their… Several years ago, my former mentor circulated this book in the lab. Until quite recently, my friends still found me quoting from it while talking about scientific ideas. Now, after reading the book…
