Description
The story told here by Robert O. Becker's most accomplished student is a thrilling intellectual adventure and a tragedy in the classic sense. Becker's great strengths were his independence and courage, his visionary scientific insights, his single-mindedness, his devotion to his patients, and his contempt for the ignorance and time-serving that he felt had poisoned biology and medicine. These qualities warred with his flaws and led to humiliating defeats that prevented recognition of his work and acceptance of his ideas. He was a poor fit for a scientific establishment based on blind, unquestioning adherence to orthodoxy. He was on a heroic quest in an unheroic time; his character and choices as well as the folly of the times led to the tragic end of his career.
Author: Andrew Marino
Publisher: Cassandra
Published: 08/31/2017
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9780981854939
ISBN10: 0981854931
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
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