June 2009 Featured Book
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by Harold Varmus '61
- Learn more about the author (view alumni profile)
- Read the Review
- Read an excerpt from Art and Politics of Science
- Listen to the interview with Harold Varmus and Professor Caroline Goutte
- Join the discussion!
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.