Apprentice to Genius
Douban
ISBN: 9780801847578
author:
Robert Kanigel
publishing house:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
publication date: 1993
-11
price: USD 25.00
number of pages: 308
The Making of a Scientific Dynasty
Robert Kanigel
overview
From the author of the bestselling "The Man Who Knew Infinity" comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprenticeship relationship alive today in modern science. Along the way, using interviews and anecdotes, Kanigel takes readers into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University and captures the drama of their breakthrough discoveries.