M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)
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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
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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