05336nam 2201057Ia 450 991081889110332120240410063023.01-59734-456-71-282-75923-X97866127592390-520-93026-610.1525/9780520930261(CKB)1000000000000482(EBL)223261(OCoLC)475927489(SSID)ssj0000100559(PQKBManifestationID)11128306(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100559(PQKBWorkID)10021075(PQKB)10449725(SSID)ssj0000356441(PQKBManifestationID)12099684(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356441(PQKBWorkID)10349620(PQKB)11036367(MiAaPQ)EBC223261(OCoLC)51821986(MdBmJHUP)muse31030(DE-B1597)519684(DE-B1597)9780520930261(Au-PeEL)EBL223261(CaPaEBR)ebr10051553(CaONFJC)MIL275923(EXLCZ)99100000000000048220040503d2003 my 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrAhead of the curve[electronic resource] David Baltimore's life in science /Shane Crotty1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20031 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22557-0 0-520-23904-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PROLOGUE --ONE. GREAT NECK, LONG ISLAND --TWO. SWARTHMORE --THREE. APPRENTICESHIPS --FOUR. SALK INSTITUTE --FIVE. MIT --SIX. RECOMBINANT DNA --SEVEN. NOBELGOLD --POLIOVIRUS: AN INTERLUDE --EIGHT. WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE --NINE. ROCKEFELLER --TEN. HOMECOMING --ELEVEN. CALTECH --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --NOTES --INDEXShane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MIT, been president of Rockefeller University, won the Nobel Prize, and been vilified by detractors in one of the most scandalous and protracted investigations of scientific fraud ever. He is now president of Caltech and a leader in the search for an AIDS vaccine. Crotty not only tells the compelling story of this larger-than-life figure, he also treats the reader to a lucid account of the amazing revolution that has occurred in biology during the past forty years. Basing his narrative on many personal interviews, Crotty recounts the milestones of Baltimore's career: completing his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in eighteen months, participating in the anti-Vietnam War movement, winning a Nobel Prize at age thirty-seven for the codiscovery of reverse transcriptase, and co-organizing the recombinant DNA/genetic engineering moratorium. Along the way, readers learn what viruses are and what they do, what cancer is and how it happens, the complexities of the AIDS problem, how genetic engineering works, and why making a vaccine is a complicated process. And, as Crotty considers Baltimore's public life, he retells the famous scientific fraud saga and Baltimore's vindication after a decade of character assassination. Crotty possesses the alchemical skill of converting technical scientific history into entertaining prose as he conveys Baltimore's huge ambitions, intensity, scientific genius, attitude toward science and politics, and Baltimore's own view about what happened in the "Baltimore Affair." Ahead of the Curve shows why with his complex personality, keen involvement in public issues, and wide-ranging interests David Baltimore has not only shaped the face of American science as we know it today, but has also become a presence in our culture.Molecular biologistsUnited StatesBiographyaids vaccine.biographical.biography.caltech.career.college.controversial.controversy.cultural history.cultural studies.culture.dna.famous scientist.genetic engineering.growing up.life story.mit.molecular biology.nobel prize.political.politics.rockefeller.science.scientific research.scientist.true story.university.vaccine.vietnam war.Molecular biologists572.8/092 BTB 3120rvkCrotty Shane1974-1690023MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818891103321Ahead of the curve4065485UNINA