The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science

Peter Doherty

Paper, 320 pages, 120 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-231-13897-0
$18.95 / £10.95

May, 2006
Cloth, 320 pages, 120 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-231-13896-3
$27.00

"A highly readable introduction to the modern world of scientific research." — Mary Powers, Commercialappeal.com

"Important to any aspiring scientist." — Bookwatch

"A charmingly homely account of his own unlikely path toward this pinnacle." — Margaret Wertheim, Los Angeles Times

"Doherty opens the vault to the world of science." — Nature

"The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize is an interesting and useful read for up-and-coming scientists." — Journal of the American Medical Association

"This extended and amusing memoir does show how the path to a Nobel can be rocky and winding." — Jeff Bairstow, Laser Focus World

Related Subjects

• Biology
• General Science

About the Author

Peter C. Doherty was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996. He is currently operating active research programs at both St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and the University of Melbourne.

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