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Even Nobel Prize-winning scientists fail to become superstars or media darlings, nor does the Nobel improve their chances of getting a choice table in a New York City restaurant. But a scientist who can make a discovery with the potential to directly save millions of lives and alter the path of a disease ravaging the globe will not just be remembered—he will also be a hero...
Robert Gallo, of the National Institute of Humanities and the National Cancer Institute, was one scientist determined to be a household name. He had a killer on his hands, AIDS, a major federally financed laboratory for research and the unceasing desire for the glory of solving the mystery of the world’s newest and potentially deadliest threat...
Crewdson delineates the challenges for scientists. AIDS clearly had epidemic potential, as cases mounted without anyone understanding how AIDS spread. Whoever could figure out what caused the disease and how it was transmitted would gain prime-time media coverage. Whoever could figure out a way to test for the disease stood to make millions on a patent. The grand prize, which hindsight proves was an optimistic goal, would surely go to the scientist responsible for a cure or vaccine...
...surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and paints a humane, detailed tableau of its fallout on both its American creators and those whom it was sent to destroy. Setting fictional characters against a historical landscape, the Canadian author traces the life of Anton B?ll, a German scientist who was a star of the Manhattan Project, as his journey entwines with that of Emiko Amai, a little girl from Hiroshima who lost her face to the world's first atomic blast...
...second term three years ago. DIED. GEORGE NADER, 80, 1954 Golden Globe winner and star of 1953 cult-classic Robot Monster; in Los Angeles. Nader's soon-to-be-published book, The Perils of Paul, gives an inside look into Hollywood's gay community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John Kendrew; in Cambridge, England. Perutz's work laid the foundation for human genome and disease research. DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows...