How to Win the Nobel Prize

An Unexpected Life in Science

J. Michael Bishop

  • San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2003
  • Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Medical Science
  • J. Michael Bishop is Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. The Phone Call

2. Accidental Scientist

3. People and Pestilence

4. Opening the Black Box of Cancer

5. Paradoxical Strife

Notes

Credits

Index

  • Cover: How to Win the Nobel Prize
  • A photo of the author

J. Michael Bishop, M.D., is Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco.