Now there is a fine biography that will help readers appreciate what he was famous for, Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) by Georgina Ferry.
Now there is a fine biography that will help readers appreciate what he was famous for, Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) by Georgina Ferry. Ferry is one of our best science writers, and this admiring but unfawning biography not only tells the story of its protagonist, but also illustrates how science gets done as a cooperative and competitive enterprise.
Max Perutz's story, wonderfully told by Georgina Ferry, brims with life. It has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of extraordinary characters. Max was demanding, passionate and driven but also humorous, compassionate and loving.
The subject of Georgina Ferry's Max Perutz and the Secret of Life was decidedly odd, but he also happened . Chatto & Windus £25, pp352. In 1980, Max Perutz was asked by the Repository for Germinal Choice to become a sperm donor
The subject of Georgina Ferry's Max Perutz and the Secret of Life was decidedly odd, but he also happened to be one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, says Robin McKie. In 1980, Max Perutz was asked by the Repository for Germinal Choice to become a sperm donor. Perutz was unamused and wrote an outraged letter to the sperm bank's organisers.
Georgina Ferry’s story brims with life, has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of. .
Georgina Ferry’s story brims with life, has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of fascinating characters. Jun 11, 2019 Claire S rated it liked it. Interesting biography, but was disappointed compared to Ferry's biography of Dorothy Hodgkin. The non-chronological storytelling was confusing at times, and the book lacked some of the personality that I enjoyed with the Hodgkin biography.
The Secret of Max Perutz’s Life. Georgina Ferry paints a personal portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning crystallographer. By Sage Ross June 1, 2009. Max Perutz and the Secret of Life. It has no place in the popular image of science, yet its role is keenly felt by scientists and the historians and humanists who study them. is a graduate student in Yale’s Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Few scientists have thought more deeply about their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914-2002). Born in Vienna, Jewish by descent, lapsed Catholic by religion, Max came to Cambridge in 1936, to join the lab of the legendary Communist thinker . In 1940 he was interned and deported to Canada as an enemy alien, only to be brought back and set to work on a bizarre top secret war project.
Few scientists have thought more deeply about the nature of their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914-2002). There he began to explore the structures of the molecules that hold the secret of life. Born in Vienna, Jewish by descent, lapsed Catholic by religion, he came to Cambridge in 1936 to join the lab of the legendary Communist thinker .
Max Perutz's story, wonderfully told by Georgina Ferry, brims with life; it has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of extraordinary characters. Georgina Ferry's absorbing biography is a marvellous tribute to a great scientist. GEORGINA FERRY is a science writer and broadcaster and the author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life which was short-listed for both the Duff Cooper Prize and the March Biography Award.
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