Category: Biography

George Beadle. An Uncommon Farmer. The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press : 2003

Seller ID: 1379

BIOGRAPHY OF NOBELIST GEORGE BEADLE (OF ONE GENE ONE ENZYME FAME) BY NOBELIST PAUL BERG, PIONEER OF RECOMBINANT DNA, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed to Dick Archer and signed by both authors on front free endpaper, i-ix, 383 pp, illustrated. Fine in very good jacket. LAID IN: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches folded program for the Beadle Symposium celebrating the centennial of his birth, at the Norman Davidson Lecture Hall, California Institute of Technology. Listed are an introduction by David Baltimore and lectures ...
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The Collected Papers of Peter J. W. Debye

By: Debye, Peter J. W.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Interscience Publishers : 1954

Seller ID: 763

SCARCE COLLECTED PUBLISHED PAPERS OF PHYSICAL CHEMIST PETER DEBYE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY NOBEL LAUREATE--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, pale blue cloth binding, signature of P. Debye on title page, xxi, 700 pp. Light wear to spine ends, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good in good+ dust jacket with spine ends and 2 inch loss top corner of back. The book contains a biography of Debye by Raymond Fuoss, followed by the papers dating from 1914 to 1951. PETER JOSEPH WILLIAM DEBYE (1884 - 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. D...
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The Academic Surgeon. An Autobiography

By: Hardy, James Daniel

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Moblile, AL, Magnolia Mansions Press : 2002

Seller ID: 1196

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY TRANSPLANT SURGEON, SIGNED BY HIM. 9 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, author's signature to label affixed to front flyleaf, iv, [8], 452 pp, very good in very good jacket. Cited by Pickover The Medicine Book: 250 Landmarks in the History of Medicine (2012). JAMES D. HARDY (1918 - 2003) was an American surgeon, famous for the first human lung transplant and the first animal-to-human heart transplant. Hardy served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in early 1944 during the Second World War. He first worked at Stark General Hospital, Charlesto...
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The Youngest Science

By: Thomas, Lewis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1983

Seller ID: 522

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICIAN PHILOSOPHER AND SOCIAL COMMENTATOR LEWIS THOMAS, AUTHOR FOR THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, beige paper covered boards, gilt author's initials to cover, black cloth spine with gilt title, 270 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. LEWIS THOMAS (1913 - 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. He was invited to write regular essays in the New England Journal of Medicine. One collection of those essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974), ...
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The Wonders of Science in Modern Life, Volume X: Who's Who in Science (volume X of X)

By: Williams, Henry Smith and Williams, Edward H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co. : 1912

Seller ID: 479

1912 SMALL VOLUME SUMMARIZING ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AT TURN OF CENTURY, FOLLOWED BY BRIEF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES. 6 inches tall small hardcover, publisher's olive green cloth binding, decorative embossed title to cover and spine, photographic portraits of scientists; Some Great Contemporaries and Their Achievements--list of Nobel winners to date, and a Dictionary of Biography. Light wear to corners and spine ends, initials on front endpaper, pages age-toned, otherwise unmarked, very good. Includes The Evolution of Living Forms (pp48-55): Since the time of Darwin no one competent to judge has que...
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