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From Caracas to Stockholm - A Life in Medical Science (Hardcover)
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From Caracas to Stockholm - A Life in Medical Science (Hardcover)
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By the time Benacerraf received a Nobel prize in 1980 for his
discovery of immune response genes, he had travelled a long way -
literally on the road to success. He was born in Venezuela in 1920
to Sephardic Jewish parents from Algeria and Morocco. Benacerraf's
childhood was spent primarily in Paris, until fear of war with Nazi
Germany compelled his family to flee to Venezuela in 1939.
Persuading his parents to send him to New York that same year,
Benacerraf attended Columbia University, beginning a peripatetic
existence that lasted until he landed in Boston in 1969, where he
has held prominent positions at Harvard Medical School and the Dana
Farber Cancer Institute. In the meantime, his passion for medical
research gained him numerous prestigious appointments and awards.
In addition to chronicling developments in his personal life,
Benacerraf offers up rather dry accounts of his most important
research projects - as well as his prediction for advances in
cancer treatment and his somewhat crotchety opinions on the state
of science education today and the research grant business. Despite
colourful early years and his impressive accomplishments,
Benacerraf paints his life in a two-dimensional fashion and
presents insights without enough imagination to sustain the average
reader's interest for long.
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