The Resource Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science, Shane Crotty
Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science, Shane Crotty
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The item Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science, Shane Crotty represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MIT, been president of Rockefeller University, won the Nobel Prize, and been vilified by detractors in one of the most scandalous and protracted investigations of scientific fraud ever. He is now president of Caltech and a leader in the search for an AIDS vaccine. Crotty not only tells the compelling story of this larger-than-life figure, he also treats the reader to a lucid account of the amazing revolution that has occurred in biology during the past forty years. Basing his narrative on many personal interviews, Crotty recounts the milestones of Baltimore's career: completing his Ph. D. at Rockefeller University in eighteen months, participating in the anti-Vietnam War movement, winning a Nobel Prize at age thirty-seven for the codiscovery of reverse transcriptase, and co-organizing the recombinant DNA/genetic engineering moratorium. Along the way, readers learn what viruses are and what they do, what cancer is and how it happens, the complexities of the AIDS problem, how genetic engineering works, and why making a vaccine is a complicated process. And, as Crotty considers Baltimore's public life, he retells the famous scientific fraud saga and Baltimore's vindication after a decade of character assassination. Crotty possesses the alchemical skill of converting technical scientific history into entertaining prose as he conveys Baltimore's huge ambitions, intensity, scientific genius, attitude toward science and politics, and Baltimore's own view about what happened in the "Baltimore Affair." Ahead of the curve shows why with his complex personality, keen involvement in public issues, and wide-ranging interests David Baltimore has not only shaped the face of American science as we know it today, but has also become a presence in our culture
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Contents
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- Prologue; Chapter One: Great Neck, Long Island; Chapter Two: Swarthmore; Chapter Three: Apprenticeships; Chapter Four: Salk Institute; Chapter Five: MIT; Chapter Six: Recombinant DNA; Chapter Seven: Nobel Gold; Poliovirus: An Interlude; Chapter Eight: Whitehead Institute; Chapter Nine: Rockefeller; Chapter Ten: Homecoming; Chapter Eleven: Caltech; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
- Isbn
- 9780585441146
- Label
- Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science
- Title
- Ahead of the curve
- Title remainder
- David Baltimore's life in science
- Statement of responsibility
- Shane Crotty
- Subject
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- Baltimore, David
- Biographies
- Biography
- Biography
- Electronic books
- Geschiedenis (vorm)
- MEDICAL -- History
- Moleculaire biologie
- Molecular Biology
- Molecular biologists -- United States -- Biography
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Molecular Biology
- United States
- United States
- Molecular biologists
- Baltimore, David
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MIT, been president of Rockefeller University, won the Nobel Prize, and been vilified by detractors in one of the most scandalous and protracted investigations of scientific fraud ever. He is now president of Caltech and a leader in the search for an AIDS vaccine. Crotty not only tells the compelling story of this larger-than-life figure, he also treats the reader to a lucid account of the amazing revolution that has occurred in biology during the past forty years. Basing his narrative on many personal interviews, Crotty recounts the milestones of Baltimore's career: completing his Ph. D. at Rockefeller University in eighteen months, participating in the anti-Vietnam War movement, winning a Nobel Prize at age thirty-seven for the codiscovery of reverse transcriptase, and co-organizing the recombinant DNA/genetic engineering moratorium. Along the way, readers learn what viruses are and what they do, what cancer is and how it happens, the complexities of the AIDS problem, how genetic engineering works, and why making a vaccine is a complicated process. And, as Crotty considers Baltimore's public life, he retells the famous scientific fraud saga and Baltimore's vindication after a decade of character assassination. Crotty possesses the alchemical skill of converting technical scientific history into entertaining prose as he conveys Baltimore's huge ambitions, intensity, scientific genius, attitude toward science and politics, and Baltimore's own view about what happened in the "Baltimore Affair." Ahead of the curve shows why with his complex personality, keen involvement in public issues, and wide-ranging interests David Baltimore has not only shaped the face of American science as we know it today, but has also become a presence in our culture
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Crotty, Shane
- Dewey number
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- 572.8/092
- B
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QH506
- LC item number
- .C76 2001eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WZ 100
- NLM item number
- B1971C 2001
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Baltimore, David
- Molecular biologists
- Molecular Biology
- United States
- Baltimore, David
- SCIENCE
- MEDICAL
- Molecular biologists
- United States
- Moleculaire biologie
- Label
- Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science, Shane Crotty
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue; Chapter One: Great Neck, Long Island; Chapter Two: Swarthmore; Chapter Three: Apprenticeships; Chapter Four: Salk Institute; Chapter Five: MIT; Chapter Six: Recombinant DNA; Chapter Seven: Nobel Gold; Poliovirus: An Interlude; Chapter Eight: Whitehead Institute; Chapter Nine: Rockefeller; Chapter Ten: Homecoming; Chapter Eleven: Caltech; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
- Control code
- 51821986
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585441146
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttsx3h2
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)51821986
- Label
- Ahead of the curve : David Baltimore's life in science, Shane Crotty
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue; Chapter One: Great Neck, Long Island; Chapter Two: Swarthmore; Chapter Three: Apprenticeships; Chapter Four: Salk Institute; Chapter Five: MIT; Chapter Six: Recombinant DNA; Chapter Seven: Nobel Gold; Poliovirus: An Interlude; Chapter Eight: Whitehead Institute; Chapter Nine: Rockefeller; Chapter Ten: Homecoming; Chapter Eleven: Caltech; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
- Control code
- 51821986
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585441146
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttsx3h2
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)51821986
Subject
- Baltimore, David
- Biographies
- Biography
- Biography
- Electronic books
- Geschiedenis (vorm)
- MEDICAL -- History
- Moleculaire biologie
- Molecular Biology
- Molecular biologists -- United States -- Biography
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Molecular Biology
- United States
- United States
- Molecular biologists
- Baltimore, David
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