List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Scenes from a Vienna Childhood 2. 'It Was Cambridge That Made Me' 3. 'The Most Dangerous Characters of All' 4. Home and Homeland 5. Mountains and Mahomet 6. How Haemoglobin Was Not Solved 7. Annus Mirabilis 8. In Search of Solutions 9. A Structure for Science - the LMB 10. The Breathing Molecule 11. Health and Disease 12. Truth Always Wins Select Bibliography Notes Glossary Index
Georgina Ferry is a former staff editor on New Scientist, and contributor to BBC Radio 4's Science Now. Her books include the acclaimed biography Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (1998); The Common Thread (2002, with Sir John Sulston); and A Computer Called LEO (2003). She lives in Oxford.
Biographies that are most apt to appeal to physicians offer a coherent and accurate account of the subject's contributions to medicine, along with insights into his or her character and personality. Georgina Ferry amply fulfills these criteria in her account of the life of Max Perutz, the Nobel laureate who worked out the structure of hemoglobin and the chemical basis of its physiological properties. Her lively narrative draws us into the world of high-powered science, with its triumphs, frustrations, and foibles. The New England Journal of Medicine In 2002, Georgina Ferry, author of an acclaimed biography of Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, was called to the bedside of the dying 88-year-old Max Perutz, a former friend and colleague of Hodgkin's. His request was simple - do for him what she had done for Hodgkin. The result is Max Perutz and the Secret of Life, a thoroughly engaging account of the birth of molecular biology as told through the life story of one of its most enigmatic founders... [T]his is a wonderful book, effectively presenting a complex man in a complex time and reminding us that unusual career training pathways, scientific rigor, and collaborative transdisciplinary science are not new ideas of the 21st century. The Journal of Clinical Investigation
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