Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize by Gilbert R Thompson

By Gilbert R Thompson

This booklet brings jointly in a single quantity fifteen discoveries that experience had an immense impression upon scientific technological know-how and the perform of drugs yet the place the scientists concerned haven't been offered a Nobel Prize. Its objective is to publicize the achievements of those lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby tell and entertain the reader, even if scientific pupil, professor or scientifically-minded layman.

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