Banting: A Biography - Softcover

Bliss, Michael

 
9780802073860: Banting: A Biography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802073867 ISBN 13: 9780802073860
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Frederick Banting was thirty-one when he received the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of insulin. He was catapulted to instant fame, for which he was neither personally nor professionally prepared. Set up as head of his own research institute by a grateful government, he struggled fruitlessly to duplicate his first triumph. His marriage to a beautiful socialite ended in a scandal that rocked Toronto, and he returned to work and painting to dull his frustration. He died in a mysterious plane crash; a new preface to this edition discusses recent findings about the crash.

Michael Bliss's highly acclaimed biography explores the life of a scientist who during his lifetime was the most famous of all Canadians, but who in his private life stands revealed as a passionate, troubled man, in many ways the victim of his own fame.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Michael Bliss is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the History of Medicine Program at the University of Toronto.

Michael Bliss is a professor of history at the University of Toronto working in the History of Medicine Program, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has written extensively in several fields of Canadian and medical history.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802073867
ISBN 13 
9780802073860
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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