M. F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier.
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Growing Up Among the Elements
November 1, 2001
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
by Oliver Sacks
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‘Genes in the Food’: An Exchange
October 4, 2001
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‘Biohazard’
May 17, 2001
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What If?
March 8, 2001
Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs
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Getting Better
November 30, 2000
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The Threat of Biological Weapons
April 13, 2000
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the WorldTold from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
by Ken Alibek, with Stephen Handelman
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The Top Designer
April 22, 1999
Cats’ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
by Steven Vogel, illustrated by Kathryn K. Davis, by Steven Vogel
Of Flies, Mice, and Men
by François Jacob, translated by Giselle Weiss
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A Passion for Science
February 20, 1997
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime
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Pasteur’s ‘Private Science’
February 6, 1997
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What Berthollet Wrote
October 31, 1996
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The Cabinet of Dr. Haber
June 20, 1996
Fritz Haber, Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude: Eine Biografie by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
Der Fall Clara Immerwahr: Leben für eine humane Wissenschaft by Gerit von Leitner
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Pasteur and the Culture Wars: An Exchange
April 4, 1996
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Corrections
February 1, 1996
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The Pioneer Defended
December 21, 1995
The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald L. Geison
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Schubert’s Death Wish
August 11, 1994
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The White Plague
May 26, 1994
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Wonand Lost by Frank Ryan
Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
by Sheila M. Rothman
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the ‘Immigrant Menace’ by Alan M. Kraut
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Lise Meitner’s Genius
February 3, 1994
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‘An Intellectual Bumblebee’
October 7, 1993
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb by William Lanouette, with Bela Silard, foreword by Jonas Salk
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‘The Fifth Freedom’: An Exchange
September 23, 1993
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Sex and the Church
February 11, 1993
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The Fifth Freedom
October 8, 1992
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas’ Horse: The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi by Carl Djerassi
The ‘Abortion Pill’ by Etienne-Emile Baulieu, with Mort Rosenblum
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The Mystery of Malaria: An Exchange
June 25, 1992
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A Mystery of the Tropics
January 16, 1992
The Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality by Robert S. Desowitz
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‘Darwin and Marx’
December 6, 1990
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High on Science
August 16, 1990
A Very Decided Preference: Life with Peter Medawar by Jean Medawar
The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists by P.B. Medawar, edited and introduced by David Pyke, foreword by Lewis Thomas
Peter Brian Medawar: 28 February 19152 October 1987 by N.A Mitchison F.R.S.
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‘Mother Country’: An Exchange
April 12, 1990
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Discrepancy
March 1, 1990
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Nuclear Pollution: An Exchange
January 18, 1990
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Is Britain ‘Befouled’?
November 23, 1989
Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution by Marilynne Robinson
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Should Genes Be Screened?
May 18, 1989
Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era
by Neil A. Holtzman
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Moscow & Harold Wilson
May 18, 1989
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Two Roads to Stockholm
October 13, 1988
Free Radical: Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C by Ralph W. Moss
In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work by Rita Levi-Montalcini, translated by Luigi Attardi
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Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man
May 12, 1988
The Statue Within: An Autobiography by François Jacob, translated by Franklin Philip
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The Vaccine Business
March 3, 1988
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Department of Defense
October 8, 1987
The Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works by Robert S. Desowitz
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Lucky Alec
March 27, 1986
Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth
by Gwyn Macfarlane
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Brave New World
September 26, 1985
Solid Clues: Quantum Physics, Molecular Biology, and the Future of Science by Gerald Feinberg