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Nobel Prizes That Changed Medicine
Author(s): Gilbert Thompson (Author)
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 372 pages
- ISBN-10: 184816825X
- ISBN-13: 9781848168251
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is an interesting book aimed at a scientific reader with some knowledge of biochemistry and physiology. —
Bulletin of The Royal College of PathologistsMany see the Nobel Prize as an award for original discoveries that enhance understanding, but these essays show how much medicine can deliver for human good and with almost immediate application. What characterizes Nobel Prizes That Changed Medicine is the extraordinary percipience of those who draw from a vast electric range of observations in the foreground of practice and crystallize their scientific ideas uncontaminated by dogma. —
Clinical MedicineThis is an interesting book aimed at a scientific reader with some knowledge of biochemistry and physiology. –Bulletin of The Royal College of Pathologists
Many see the Nobel Prize as an award for original discoveries that enhance understanding, but these essays show how much medicine can deliver for human good and with almost immediate application. What characterizes Nobel Prizes That Changed Medicine is the extraordinary percipience of those who draw from a vast electric range of observations in the foreground of practice and crystallize their scientific ideas uncontaminated by dogma. –Clinical Medicine
From the Back Cover
Anyone interested in the particulars of a specific award or Laureate can obtain detailed information on the topic by accessing the Nobel Foundation’s website. In contrast, this book aims to provide a less formal and more personal view of the science and scientists involved, by having prominent academics write a chapter each about a Nobel Prize-winning discovery in their own areas of interest and expertise.
