Books About Laureates

Oswald Avery
The Professor, the Institute, and DNA, by Rene J. Dubos
The Transforming Principle, by Maclyn McCarty

George Wells Beadle
George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century, by Paul Berg

Seymour Benzer
Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics, by Frederic Lawrence Holmes and William C. Summers
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, by Jonathan Weiner

Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA, by Catherine Brady

Francis Crick
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code, by Matt Ridley

Michael DeBakey
Diary of a Heart Patient: Twice Operated on by Dr. DeBakey, a Patient Tells of His Experience, by Yehuda Kesten

Brock Chisholm
Brock Chisholm: Doctor to the World, by Allan Irving

Rene Dubos
Rene Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Environmentalist, by Carol L. Moberg

Sir F. MacFarlane Burnet
The Seeds of Time: The Life of Sir MacFarlane Burnet, by Christopher Sexton
Virus Hunter in Australia: The Story of Sir MacFarlane Burnet, by Roy Norry

Betty Ford
Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in The White House, by John Robert Greene
Betty Ford, by Joanne Mattern

John Gibbon
A Dream of the Heart: The Life of John H. Gibbon, Jr., Father of the Heart-Lung Machine, by Harris B. Shumacker

Ma (George Hatem) Haide
Ma Haide: The Saga of American Doctor George Haten in China, by Sidney Shapiro
Dr. Ma Haide (George Hatem), by Sun Yunshan, Chen Rinong, and Zhou Youma

Alice Hamilton
The Workers' Detective: A Story About Dr. Alice Hamilton, by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson and Janet Schulz
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters, by Barbara Sicherman
Alice Hamilton: Pioneer Doctor in Industrial Medicine, by Madeleine P. Grant

Mark Hatfield
Lonely Walk: The Life of Senator Mark Hatfield, by Robert Eells and Bartell Nyberg

Maurice Hilleman
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases, by Paul A. Offit

Godfrey Hounsfield
Godfrey Hounsfield and the Invention of CAT Scans, by Susan Zannos

Lyndon Baines Johnson
Great Society: The Story of Lyndon Baines Johnson, by Nancy A. Colbert
Lyndon Baines Johnson, by Michael Burgan

Willem Kolff
The Nuts and Bolts of Life: Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Kidney Machine, by Paul Heiney
Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Dialysis Machine, by Kathleen Tracy

Hans Krebs
Hans Krebs: Volume 2: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism, 1933-1937, by Frederic Lawrence Holmes

Melvin Laird
With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics, by Dale Van Atta

Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer)
America's Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers, by Rick Kogan

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini: Nobel Prize Winner, by Susan Tyler
Rita Levi-Montalcini: Seeking the Secrets of Growth, by Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser

Walton Lillehei
The Genius of C. Walton Lillehei and the True History of Open Heart Surgery, by Daniel A., M.D. Goor
King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery, by G. Wayne Miller

Warren G. Magnuson
Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America, by Shelby Scates

Barbara McClintock
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, by Evelyn Fox Keller
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control, by Nathaniel C. Comfort

Mathew Meselson
Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of 'The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology,' by Frederic Lawrence Holmes

George Papanicolaou
The Pap Smear: Life of George N. Papanicolaou, by Erskine D. Carmichael

Claude Pepper
Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power, by Tracy E. Danese

Christopher Reeve
Superhero: A Biography of Christopher Reeve, by Chris Nickson
Christopher Reeve, by Libby Hughes

Florence Sabin
Florence Sabin: Pioneer Scientist, by Sybil Downing, Jane Valentine Barker, and Ann Jones
Life of Florence Sabin, by J. Leonard Kaye
Probing the Unknown: The Story of Dr. Florence Sabin, by Mary Kay Phelan

Jules Stein
Vision for the future: Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1966-1991, by William Campbell Felch

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Free Radical: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C, by Ralph W. Moss

Helen Taussig
To Heal the Heart of a Child: Helen Taussig, M.D., by Joyce Baldwin

Selman Waksman
Selman Waksman and the Discovery of Streptomycin, by Karen Gordon

James Watson
The DNA Doctor: Candid Conversations with James D Watson, by Istvan Hargittai
Francis Crick and James Watson, and the Building Blocks of Life, by Edward Edelson
The Writing Life of James D. Watson, by Errol C. Friedberg
DNA Pioneer: James Watson and the Double Helix, by Joyce Baldwin

Nancy Wexler
Gene Hunter: The Story of Neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler, by Adele Glimm

Paul Dudley White
Take Heart: The Life and Prescription for Living of Dr. Paul Dudley White, by Oglesby Paul

Rosalyn Yalow
Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate: Her Life and Work in Medicine, by Eugene Straus