LEADER 03727nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910778455503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02097-9 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020979 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000174542 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172648 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000174542 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10176009 035 $a(PQKB)10056818 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300700 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331285 035 $a(OCoLC)923116712 035 $a(DE-B1597)589740 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300700 035 $a(OCoLC)1294423880 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805550 100 $a20040809d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow to win the Nobel Prize$b[electronic resource] $ean unexpected life in science. /$fJ. Michael Bishop 205 $a1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA ;$aLondon $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $axiii, 271 p. $cill 225 1 $aThe Jerusalem-Harvard lectures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00880-4 311 $a0-674-01625-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Phone Call -- $t2. Accidental Scientist -- $t3. People and Pestilence -- $t4. Opening the Black Box of Cancer -- $t5. Paradoxical Strife -- $tNotes -- $tCredits -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, How to Win the Nobel Prize is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial enemies--the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, HIV--and by biographical sketches of the scientists who led the fight against these scourges. Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of many of today's most important science-related controversies--ranging from stem cell research to the attack on evolution to scientific misconduct. How to Win the Nobel Prize affords us the pleasure of hearing about science from a brilliant practitioner who is a humanist at heart. Bishop's perspective will be valued by anyone interested in biomedical research and in the past, present, and future of the battle against cancer. 410 0$aJerusalem-Harvard lectures. 606 $aMedical scientists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aOncogenes 606 $aNobel Prizes 615 0$aMedical scientists 615 0$aOncogenes. 615 0$aNobel Prizes. 676 $a610.92 700 $aBishop$b J. Michael$f1936-$01512550 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778455503321 996 $aHow to win the Nobel Prize$93746505 997 $aUNINA