Medal winners : how the Vietnam War launched Nobel careers

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Full Title:: Medal winners : how the Vietnam War launched Nobel careers / Raymond S. Greenberg

Genre:: Biography
Subjects:: Goldstein, Joseph L.(Joseph Leonard)
Brown, Michael S.,1941-
Lefkowitz, Robert J.,1943-
Varmus, Harold
United States.Selective Service Extension Act of 1950
National Institutes of Health (U.S.).
Physicians--United States--Biography
Scientists--United States--Biography
Nobel Prize winners--United States--Biography
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States--Influence
Physicians
Nobel Prize
Biomedical Research--history
Government Agencies
Federal Government
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
United States

Table of Contents:: Annus horribilis : 1968 and America's conflict on two fronts -- Best in class : Goldstein, Varmus, Brown, Lefkowitz -- "My son, the doctor" : higher education in the era of quotas -- Yellow berets : the Vietnam "doctor draft" and NIH's clinical associate training program -- Campus life : learning science and serving the nation -- NIH's finest hour : Nirenberg cracks the genetic code -- Beginning at termination : Marshall Nirenberg and Joseph Goldstein -- Following the right path : Earl Stadtman -- In Earl's court : Earl Stadtman and Michael Brown -- Harmony in hormones : Ira Pastan and Jesse Roth -- Priest and prophet : Jesse Roth, Ira Pastan, and Robert Lefkowitz -- Overcoming repression : Ira Pastan and Harold Varmus -- The Texas two-step : Goldstein and Brown -- Adrenaline rush : Lefkowitz and the serpentine journey -- Infectious enthusiasm : Varmus and Bishop learn fowl lessons -- Epilogue.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xxii, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm