Experiment Eleven e-bog
74,45 DKK
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The remarkable story of a wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine'The story of Experiment Eleven is amazing, as is its brilliant reporting, narrative verve and cool command of scientific ideas' Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind'A riveting and heartbreaking book' New ScientistIn 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American Ph.D. student working in professor ...
E-bog
74,45 DKK
Forlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Udgivet
12 april 2012
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
HBT
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781408826065
The remarkable story of a wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine'The story of Experiment Eleven is amazing, as is its brilliant reporting, narrative verve and cool command of scientific ideas' Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind'A riveting and heartbreaking book' New ScientistIn 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American Ph.D. student working in professor Selman Waksman's lab, was searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the leading killer among the world's infectious diseases.As director of Schatz's research, Waksman took credit for the discovery, belittled Schatz's work, and secretly enriched himself with royalties from the streptomycin patent filed by Merck, the pharmaceutical company. Acclaimed author and journalist Peter Pringle unravels the intrigue behind one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine.