2: Scientist memoir biographiesfiction mainly medicine related
Explore captivating scientist memoir biographies and fiction books focused on medicine. Discover inspiring stories of medical pioneers and breakthroughs in this curated collection of medicine-related memoirs.
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Microbe Hunters
by Paul De Kruif
Presents twelve stories of the men who pioneered the study of bacteriology.
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries)
by Barbara Goldsmith
Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human …
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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition
by Evelyn Fox Keller
For much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the …
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Into the Past
by Phillip V. Tobias
Phillip Tobias is best known for his pioneering work at South Africa's famous fossil hominid sites, such as Sterkfontein, and for his quarter-century partnership with …
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Memoir of a Thinking Radish
by Peter Brian Medawar
This fascinating volume presents the memoirs and reflections of Peter Medawar--the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and highly acclaimed author of Pluto's Republic, Aristotle to Zoos, and …
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The Excitement and Fascination of Science
Vol. 2, with subtitle Reflections by eminent scientists, compiled by W. C. Gibson.
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Hans Krebs
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
Reconstructs the investigative pathway and the life of Hans Krebs, from the time of his arrival in England in 1933 until 1937, when he made …
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Hans Krebs: The formation of a scientific life, 1900-1933
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
The biography of one of the world's foremost biochemists, which traces his scientific career and his discoveries of the urea cycle and the citric acid …
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Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
In 1957 two young scientists produced an experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Cricks had proposed.
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Nature's Robots
by Charles Tanford
The authorÆs strike out in search of proteins, those molecular workhorses who labor at the heart of every living process, helping readers unravel the secret …
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George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer
by Paul Berg
"The authors explore Beadle's life and scientific accomplishments against the backdrop of classical genetics, and discuss the development of the new genetics as well as …
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Investigative Pathways
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity. Following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, it finds common features …
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Time, Love, Memory
by Jonathan Weiner
The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm. How much of our fate is decided before we are …
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Reconceiving the Gene
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the …
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
by Alan Hirshfeld
Tells the story of Michael Faraday, who was a poor, uneducated bookbinder's apprentice who overcame adversity and class prejudice in nineteenth-century England to emerge as …
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True Genius
by Vicki Daitch
What is genius? Define it. Now think of scientists who embody the concept of genius. Does the name John Bardeen spring to mind? Indeed, have …
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Fermat's Enigma
by Simon Singh
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this …
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Genius
by James Gleick
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could …
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Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena
by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
The study of capillarity is in the midst of a veritable explosion. What is offered here is not a comprehensive review of the latest research …
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Petit Point
by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and industrial world in bite-size stories.
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Fragile Objects
by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Written by 1991 Nobel laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes, this fascinating book addresses topics ranging from soft-matter physics to the activities of science: the role …
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Dorothy Hodgkin
by Georgina Ferry
A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace activist, this work paints a portrait of an accomplished woman who combined an ambitious career with …
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
by Sherwin B. Nuland
A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.