June 2009 Featured Book

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The Art and Politics of Science cover
The Art and Politics of Science
 by Harold Varmus '61

 


In this memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and veteran of science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. An English major at Amherst, Harold Varmus soon after discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of the profession.