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Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks, and he’s many books include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts and Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist. He is based in London.
Check out these books from nature.com below.Robert J. Lefkowitz with Randy Hall Pegasus (2021)
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Cardiologist-turned-biochemist, Robert Lefkowitz won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how adrenaline works through stimulation of specific receptors, with huge implications for drug discovery. Yet he calls himself “an accidental scientist”, because he trained as a physician. Instead of being drafted to the Vietnam War, he served at the US National Institutes of Health. His autobiography is a vividly anecdotal account, influenced by a supervisor’s lesson that data do not tell a story: “A story is something you impose on the data.”
Source: Nature.com
