LEADER 03723nam 2200517 450 001 9910823217803321 005 20231106183147.0 010 $a1-4773-1943-3 024 7 $a10.7560/319420 035 $a(CKB)4100000010103628 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6012507 035 $a(DE-B1597)586583 035 $a(OCoLC)1266228841 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477319437 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010103628 100 $a20200304d2020 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedal winners $ehow the Vietnam War launched Nobel careers /$fRaymond S. Greenberg 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cThe University of Texas Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (440 pages) 311 $a1-4773-1942-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAnnus horribilis : 1968 and America's conflict on two fronts -- Best in class : Goldstein, Varmus, Brown, Lefkowitz -- "My son, the doctor" : higher education in the era of quotas -- Yellow berets : the Vietnam "doctor draft" and NIH's clinical associate training program -- Campus life : learning science and serving the nation -- NIH's finest hour : Nirenberg cracks the genetic code -- Beginning at termination : Marshall Nirenberg and Joseph Goldstein -- Following the right path : Earl Stadtman -- In Earl's court : Earl Stadtman and Michael Brown -- Harmony in hormones : Ira Pastan and Jesse Roth -- Priest and prophet : Jesse Roth, Ira Pastan, and Robert Lefkowitz -- Overcoming repression : Ira Pastan and Harold Varmus -- The Texas two-step : Goldstein and Brown -- Adrenaline rush : Lefkowitz and the serpentine journey -- Infectious enthusiasm : Varmus and Bishop learn fowl lessons -- Epilogue. 330 $aAs the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians? few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century. Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize?winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s. 606 $aPhysicians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aScientists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aNobel Prize winners$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$zUnited States$xInfluence 615 0$aPhysicians 615 0$aScientists 615 0$aNobel Prize winners 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xInfluence. 676 $a610.922 700 $aGreenberg$b Raymond S.$01020221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823217803321 996 $aMedal winners$94080851 997 $aUNINA